This short documentary film follows Maiko, a genderqueer Chicanx activist, who navigates his gender identity through three spaces: his family home in Pomona, CA, the queer community in Tucson AZ, and a migrant aid camp on the Arizona/Mexico border where he works with the nonprofit organization No Mas Muertes which helps people survive the perilous desert border crossing. The film operates like a braided triptych offering three intimate portraits of one person navigating three distinct spaces, all while simultaneously reconciling gender expression and Chicanx identity. (Please contact for link to view) |
Taller Teatral is an ongoing series of experimental videos which take as their source material archival footage from my families archive. City Terrace 1988 is the first in the series and is built from one distinct family tape taken in my grandparents home in East Los Angeles, CA in 1988. I appear in this video at the age of 4 as well as three other family members who have since then "come out" as queer. Through manipulation of still sequence, markers of time and embedded sound, I attempt to locate the subtle moments of queer subjectivity as viewed by the original lens of the camcorder and the person holding it and then re-edited with a deliberate queer hand. (Please contact for link to view) |