Poli Marichal

The daughter of renowned Spanish artist and set designer Carlos Marichal, Poli started out as an experimental filmmaker and animator. During the 1980s she won numerous international awards for short Super-8 films such as "Blues Tropical," "Coffee Break" and "Isla Postal." In 1989 she moved from her native Puerto Rico to Los Angeles, where she continued to work as a filmmaker and fine artist. She was granted a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Media Arts in 1992, for which she completed the documentary "Son Afrocaribeño - Puerto Rico: Bomba y Plena," and in 1998 had two of her films included in the retrospective: "Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films," at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 2018, her short film "Los Espejismos de Mandrágora Luna" was included in the Hammer Museum's survey exhibition, "Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985," as part of the "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA" series.