stand up next 2 a mountain: unknown narratives of Latino members of the Black Panther Party is a video and audio documentation illuminating the unknown history of Latino members of the Black Panther Party (1966-1982), whose public history and personal narratives remain completely unknown but whose roles and contributions further add to the complexity of Race, gender, ethnicity and cultural paradigm. Russian filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky described cinema as a way of “sculpting in time”. This video, audio documentation would evolve as an ephemeral monument, installation or projections including interviews and hardcopy documents from 1960s-1970s FBI and underground media. “I want to reach into the past and reconstruct the present and create spaces and details in which there are no ‘invisible people’” stated architect Coleman A. Jordan about the invisible histories of African Americans in Autobio-graphic Space: Reconciling African American Identity with the (In)visible Past).

This project is unique in that it is an ephemeral repository of Latino women and men whose roles in the BPP were groundbreaking and pivotal in achieving a broader interpretation of Blackness in the US and abroad. Personal interviews would be conducted with surviving members including former Asian and Native American members. This project would serve as an example of an organization, the BPP, that was richly empowered through its ranks with diversity and whose sense of self determination is still being unraveled.