An ASCO Evening — feat. the World Premiere of SEÑOR TERESHKOVA (1974-75)!
About this Event
Banner image: ASCO during filming of Sr. Tereshkova, ©1974, Harry Gamboa Jr.
As part of PRS's YesterdayLA 2026 series—a month-long exploration of the people, places, and works of art that have become part of the fabric of Los Angeles history—El Cine and 7th House are proud to co-present an evening with members of the legendary East Los Angeles Chicano art collective ASCO, Willie Herrón III, Harry Gamboa Jr., and Humberto Sandoval. Through conversation, commentary, and rare materials from their personal archives, the artists will revisit Asco's irreverent and audacious work through photographs and films spanning more than five decades, including a slideshow of the collective's celebrated "No Movies," rare home movie footage with live commentary, and the world theatrical premiere of Sandoval's film SEÑOR TERESHKOVA (1974–75), newly reconstructed and completed fifty years after its making.
Emerging from East Los Angeles in the early 1970s, Asco transformed the streets, storefronts, vacant lots, and billboards of the city into sites of performance, intervention, and self-invention. Blending performance art, activism, satire, glamour, and experimentation, the collective confronted the social and political realities of Los Angeles while challenging prevailing representations of Chicano life through acts of artistic and cultural resistance. Best known for their celebrated "No Movies"—elaborately staged photographs masquerading as stills from films that never existed—Asco drew upon photography, film, murals, and public actions to create vibrant and urgent multimedia works unlike anything else being produced in Los Angeles at the time.
While cinema inspired much of Asco's work, the collective produced relatively few films of its own. Yet one of the group's most celebrated "No Movies," The Gores, was in fact a still from a real film—Humberto Sandoval's SEÑOR TERESHKOVA (1974–75). Long considered lost, the film existed more as legend than film. Though it had been written about as a completed work, only an unfinished eight-minute version was known to survive. Over the course of several years, Sandoval searched through archives, personal collections, and decades-old materials in an effort to reconstruct the film as originally intended.
That search led to the discovery of a VHS assembly found in Sandoval's own closet, original soundtrack recordings from 1974–75, production stills, and missing photographic sequences preserved by Harry Gamboa Jr. With the help of Gamboa Jr. and his fellow founding Asco member Willie Herrón III, Sandoval painstakingly pieced the film back together, recreating lost scenes and restoring footage that had not been seen in over fifty years. The result is the long-awaited world premiere of a film once thought lost to time.
El Cine and 7th House invite you to be among the first to experience this newly recovered chapter of Los Angeles cultural history and to celebrate Asco's singular fusion of art, activism, performance, and cinema in all its creativity, urgency, and defiant spirit.
SEÑOR TERESHKOVA
Dir. Humberto Sandoval, 1974-1975/Reconstructed 2025, 13 mins, Digital.
Tickets: $12 (All Screenings Are In Person Only)
Please email [email protected] or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions.
ASCO during filming of Sr. Tereshkova ©1974, Willie Herrón III
ASCO during filming of Sr. Tereshkova ©1974, Willie Herrón III
ASCO, The Walking Mural, still from super 8mm documentation, courtesy of Willie Herrón III
ASCO, The Walking Mural, still from super 8mm documentation, courtesy of Willie Herrón III
ASCO, The Walking Mural, still from super 8mm documentation, courtesy of Willie Herrón III
EL CINE
El Cine is a 501-c3 that provides free film education for the community through Latin-focused screenings and conversations. Visit their website for more info and upcoming events!
ABOUT YesterdayLA 2026
This July, the Philosophical Research Society celebrates our beloved city’s rich and diverse past with YesterdayLA 2026, our second annual month-long exploration of unique stories and works of art that have become part of the fabric of Los Angeles history. The landscape of our city is changing faster than ever before. By examining the LA of yesterday, we invite Angelenos to gather together to not only look back but forward to the possibilities of our great city’s tomorrow.
Throughout its 90+ year history The Philosophical Research Society has stood as a sanctuary for those seeking truth and enlightenment, with its doors open to Angelenos who have created great works of art and innovation, political movements, and spiritual evolutions across the eras. YesterdayLA will explore the fascinating stories of our city’s past with the continued spirit of curiosity that has stood as the pillar of PRS’s mission.
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