Vida Zamora

MX/BR/NC/NY

Documentarist and writer weaving through the complex tapestry of intersectionality through dialect. 

Vida embraces collective “fictions” as resistance, dissent, and a world-building device. 

Their ethos embodies stark materialism and refuses to work with inscriptions.

Vida believes in direct action, process-based work, and democratizing mediums. 

They are a strong advocator of "Kuxlejal," life-affirming practices.

   (Vida has no immediate tribal affiliation, yet they hold strong connections and actively work to re-indigenize and undo the violence that erased their Chīchīmēcah ancestry)


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01 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.

Read more22’20’’

Digital, 
Video, Photography,

AUG—2024

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02 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.

Read more24’53’’

Digital, 
Video, Photography, 
8mm Film

XXXX—202X

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03 Power and “Queer” Inquiry pt.2 

“...For those who came before us and those who are yet to come, we who are still fighting say, “We are all transsexuals” and “There are no transsexuals” in the same sentence.”

Read moreNon-Fiction
Essay

APR—2023

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04 Power and “Queer” Inquiry pt.1

“...Learned languages seek to mitigate the reactive images of a well-stipulated difference, or otherness, with those of our conditioned experiences in specific physical and metaphysical spaces through struggle, adaptation, and compromise...”

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Non-Fiction
Essay

FEB—2023

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05 Historicity in The Third World:

   Reframing Gender Struggles in Neo-          Liberal México.

This essay analyses the historicity of domestic violence as the effect of multiple colonial and imperial instances in Mexico’s history.

Read moreNon-Fiction
Academic Essay

May-2023

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06 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."

Read more3’40’’
Digital

Nov—2022

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07 “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.

Read more8’16’’

16mm Film

MAR—2022

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Updated 11/27/2023 by Vida Zamora