Vida Zamora
MX/BR/NC/NY



Trans*disciplinary artist and writer[...]



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01 Counter Documents: Rehearsals

“...this zine is an effort that situates itself not in the position of a formulator nor organizer of knowledge but rather as a concerned documentary practitioner who is not willing to abide by the apologist and self-manufacturing theories of working with and in difference.”

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Non-Fiction
Manifesto
Zine

DEC—2024






02 El Régimen del Mirar

Seeing is reclaimed: a river is an errant water, borders oscillate, and therefore a map is always anachronistic. From this made obsolescence, a blank canvas for radical imagination emerges and is used to shrug off what has been given for what has been always already here.

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22’20’’

Digital, 
Video, Photography,

AUG—2024




03 Ojos Que No Ven (Proof of Concept)

*WORK IN PROGRESS*
Memory reveals the very ideological nature of a Mexican post-colonial, neo-liberal estate-making 

The film is interested in patterns, structures, and constructions, finding instances where remembering is worship, joy, discipline, and resistance.

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24’53’’

Digital, 
Video, Photography, 
8mm Film

XXXX—202X






04 Negative Spaces

The piece speaks of culture-production practices. Further pointing to the eminent cultural sacrifices of permanency in the United States and the moral compromises ingrained in the narrative of "authorization."

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3’40’’
Digital

Nov—2022

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05 “DEATH” Student Short

Mexican “macho” dreams of an encounter with La Sagrada Muerte. His plotting to undermine her and her absolute actions is reversed when he encounters this omnipotent mythical symbol in an unexpected fluster.


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8’16’’

16mm Film

MAR—2022


Updated 11/27/2023 by Vida Zamora