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IT CAN'T BE TRUE

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The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time

Invisible Violence

Invisible Violence

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As I started to dig into my family's history, I di As I started to dig into my family's history, I discovered a whole history of Bracero workers, who very likely endured the gasoline baths along the border every 8 days in order to work on U.S. territory. Over 127,000 Mexicans were subjected to this "disinfecting" treatment in 1917 alone. Chemicals like Zyklon B were also used to delouse Mexican workers 25 year before WWII, and it is precisely this practices that "inspired" the Nazis to do the same against Jewish people in the Holocaust. Here you can see a couple stills from my @taxiplasm film "Invisible Violence", along with historical archives of the inspection and delousing process along the border, a deplorable practice that quietly continued for decades. "Invisible Violence" was proudly made this year under the tutelage of @bolivianbold & #QueerArtMentorship
While brainstorming "Invisible Violence", I realiz While brainstorming "Invisible Violence", I realized I could never really tell a story of Braceros with perfect historical accuracy, too much of history has been distorted to simply erased. So instead I wanted to make a dream of the Bracero crossing experience by experimenting with infrared cinematography. Shooting in IR on location along the Rio Grande, I hope that in these luminous moments, both the "promised land" as well as the pending nightmare, merge into one. In these images you will see how our camera was only seeing in IR, (without UV or visible light) to give a ghostly atmosphere.
When a Texas Black Vulture is spotted in the open When a Texas Black Vulture is spotted in the open plains that join Texas and Mexico, you know death is near, and it has many faces. Stills from "Invisible Violence"
When I began #QueerArtMentorship I did not anticip When I began #QueerArtMentorship I did not anticipate writing a film surrounding immigration issues, but as I dug more deeply into my own emotional reservoir, I was taken into my own history and family psychology, where a deep underbelly of unspoken generational traumas had been hiding. In this photo, my father is on the far left with his siblings in the border town of Piedras Negras. It only made sense to use it my new @taxiplasm film "Invisible Violence", because as my mentor @bolivianbold has said : the personal IS political.
Many people inquire, "what's with the masks?" The Many people inquire, "what's with the masks?" The inspiration comes from an extraordinary woman named Anna Coleman Ladd, who sculpted masks for men severely wounded in the first world war. In my upcoming feature film, "Those Who Didn't Run", a reclusive character survives a fire at the routine gasoline baths along the Mexican border, and takes it upon themselves to make masks for Mexicans who can't get medical attention for their disfiguring wounds. I, along with sculptor David Anthony Garcia @davidartistsa, took face casts of our Mexican "Bracero" workers casted in "Invisible Violence" and manually disfigured them ourselves. I also did a mold of myself! It is a strange and satisfying thing to mutilate one's own face.
SOUND ON So blessed that @bareopera could join us SOUND ON So blessed that @bareopera could join us last night @norwoodclub to offer an original #requiem composed by my longtime collaborator @renzo.vitale for the premiere of "Invisible Violence". Shout out to @midheaven.network & @adrianmxound for doing a killer job managing audio and livestream!
Whispers of a #NamelessFear ... Whispers of a #NamelessFear ...
#Change requires a #shattering . #Change requires a #shattering .
...It was like the #Apparition I Ionged for. ...It was like the #Apparition I Ionged for.
TONIGHT at 8pm EST is the Opening Reception of #qa TONIGHT at 8pm EST is the Opening Reception of #qamARCANUM exhibition featuring the trailer for my new piece #InvisibleViolence See @queerart for RSVP details!
"I am the end of all your dreams" "I am the end of all your dreams"
#InvisibleViolence #ComingSoon #qamARCANUM #InvisibleViolence #ComingSoon #qamARCANUM
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