Vida Zamora

US/DC

Documentarist and Writer exploring intersectionality in language and culture production.

The ethos in Vida's work is spiritual in nature. It vocalizes through contesting hegemonic power discourses and reflecting upon the roles, doctrines, and ideas that derive from them.

Vida advocates for "Kuxlejal" world-building and mutual aid as a world-making practice with a disciplinary width span that epitomizes within modern occupied and colonized territories, 

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01 Ojos Que No Ven (Short)


The retellings of four sisters become the canvas for a journey that meditates on different perspectives around a gone figure.

Vida is interested in patterns, structures, and constructions, finding instances where remembering becomes an act of discipline, worship, joy, and, ultimately, resistance.

Read more10’32’’

Digital, 
Video, Photography, 
8mm Film

NOV—2023

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02 Incompetenece, A Generation 

“...getting involved with a diversity of support-based practices[,] I’ve come to realize that there is no point in “balancing” my work and personal life with extracurricular activities and hobbies...“

Read moreNon-Fiction
Opinion
Column

OCT—2023

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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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Doc—45456

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06 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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07 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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08 “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