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Trans*disciplinary artist and writer[...]



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01 The Regime of Seeing: Direcotr’s Cut

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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9’54’’

Digital,
Video,

Premiere:
March—2025





02 the talking camera that talks for those who makes other

These seemingly protocoled, "objective" images are cast against the perpetrator's distance, bias, and self-attributed authority, immediately channeling these images into a millennium-old friend/enemy epistemology of empire.

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3’38’’

Digital,
Video,

Premiere:
May—2025





03 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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Duke University

Non-Fiction
Manifesto
Zine



Public
DEC—2024




04 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,
Community Arts,
(Installation)




AUG—2024
in distribuition...



05 “Death in 16mm”

A Mexican man dreams of an encounter with La Sagrada Muerte. His plotting to undermine this it’s authority is challenged when he encounters this omnipotent mythical symbol in an unexpected fluster.


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8’16’’

16mm
(student film)



Premiere:
FISURA 2023


Updated 11/27/2023 by Vida Zamora