Bio
Jorge Arrieta is a Nashville based artist who works with many different mediums including film. The artist recently debuted his show, Standing on a Whale, a fifty-five piece art and twenty-eight minute film exhibition at the historic Neuhoff in Nashville, Tennessee. The film has gone on to become the Official Selections of seven film festivals and also to win "Best Experimental" at the Festivus Film Festival in Denver, the Tupelo Film Festival in Mississippi and the Reel HeArt International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.
Mr. Arrieta received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design Communications at Belmont University in 1999. He is a freelance web and graphic designer who works mainly with local musicians. Jorge Arrieta is currently working on an innovatively controversial new film and art project, a social commentary, to be released in a few months.
Artist Statement
Jorge Arrieta artist and filmmaker my quest for truth has intensified and will continue to grow as the universe expands. I am not searching for the truth, but simply a truth. While I forge ahead, my mission is to identify the lies and manipulations that surround our society and to expose their true nature. In doing so, my hope is that others may have a clearer path upon which to travel or at least a lighter load to carry.
Philip Meggs wrote, "…If we understand the past, we will better be able to continue a culture legacy of beautiful form and effective communication. If we ignore this legacy, we run the risk of becoming buried in a mindless morass of commercialism whose mole-like vision ignores human values and needs as it burrows forward into darkness."
Indeed, this unheeded warning clearly extended beyond art and into the culture that most of us have come to accept as everyday life.
My journey thus is not to recruit through ideology nor theology, but only to remove the veil that shrouds injustice and deceit so that you, the individual, have a clear view upon which to make your final judgment and your forthcoming actions.
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