“Space Oddity” (5 min./Super 8 dual projection/2017)
A meditation on the border town of Brownsville, Texas an its unique location as a crossroads for two disparate multi-million dollar investments — one focused on human containment, and the other on earthly escape.
Commissioned by Echo Park Film in Los Angeles with support from The Andy Warhold Foundation for the Visual Arts
The Crow Furnace (30 min./16mm found footage & live action/2015)
An experimental narrative that blends fact and fiction to create a historiography of the city of San Francisco as mediated through the element of fire.
Winner, Jury’s Citation 2nd Prize Black Maria Film Festival, 2015
This Night, Who is Gonna Cry for You (5 min./found footage video/2014)
A tribute documentary about the last Latino gay bar in San Francisco.
USA Screening Highlights: MIX NYC 2018; San Francisco Urban Film Festival, 2017
The Moon Song of Assassination (7 min./video/2010)
A “docu-legend” about Tex-Mex singer Selena Quintanilla, who in 1995 at the brink of crossover success, was shot and killed by the president of her fan club and subsequently became a Mexican-American pop cultural icon.
Domestic Screening Highlight: Touring exhibition – Explorations and Documentation: 10 Short Films from the North American Experimental Cinema, 2012 (Curator: Brenda Contreras)
Half Shell (4 min./hand processed 16mm & video/2010)
An intimate portrait of Dana, a visually impaired transgender woman. The short manipulates hand-processed footage through the optics of a film projector to explore beauty as experienced through the blurred boundaries of gender and physical ability.
Domestic Screening Highlight: MIX New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival, 2012
Kindergarten Prometheus (5 min./film & video/2008)
An experimental trance film meditation on childhood and fire that uses 16mm found footage.
Domestic Highlight: San Diego Carousel Microcinema, 2009 (Curator: Cauleen Smith)
Cartography of Ashes (45 min./Super-8 & 16mm film/2006)
A poetic documentary about the 1906 San Francisco fire and earthquake.
Domestic Screening Highlights: San Francisco International Film Festival, 2006; Artistic Disasters – Works by George Kuchar, Christina McPhee, Dolissa Medina, Bill Morrison and Semiconductor, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, 2006
19: Victoria, Texas (4 min./video/2006)
An experimental short about the worst case of human smuggling in U.S. history, this film is a memorial to the victims as well as a journey into the dark, claustrophobic experience of a human tragedy.
Award: Jury’s Citation, Honorable Mention, Black Maria Film Festival, 2007
Domestic Screening Highlight: Phantom Sightings: A Declaration of Immigration, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, 2008
A Lineage of Kind Men (3.30 min./16mm found footage/2004)
Using 16mm educational found footage from the 1970s, this short looks at Mexican masculinity and alternative gender role models from the perspective of a young girl discovering her sexuality.
Domestic Screening Highlight: Frameline Int’l Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, SF, 2004
Grounds (11 min./16mm/2000)
A personal documentary about the scent of history and the organic texture of migratory memory.
Domestic Screening Highlights: “The L Factor” at Exit Art Gallery, NY, 2004; Ann Arbo Film Festival, 2001; MIX New York, 2001; Frameline International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, SF, 2001
SELECTED INTERNATIONAL SCREENINGS
2015 “Beyond the Surface,” film program, Laborneunzehn Atelier, Berlin
2012 Oberhausen on Tour (Migration Program), 21 countries worldwide
2011 Femina International Women’s Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008 MÉXICO/NEW YORK/PARÍS, Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla / Mexico City
2007 International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2007 ComuArte Festival, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
2007 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
2007 International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund/Cologne, Germany
2007 Crisis Zones exhibition screening, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
2007 Signes de Nuit FIFVC Lebanon/Germany/Italy/France/Netherlands/Norway/Spain
2007 Festival Internacional de Cortometraje de Santiago, Chile
2006 52nd Int’l Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
2006 Interfilm Berlin film festival, Germany
COLLECTIONS
Oberhausen Film Festival International Distribution Catalogue
University of California, Irvine
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Houston-Victoria/Victoria College Library
University of Texas at San Antonio
University of Arizona at Tucson
University of Kentucky