Date Night -- Another Set of Jaws -- A Heated Exchange (2024, colour video, 6.15)
Three short vignettes that interrupt and subvert representations of masculinity in Hollywood films.
screenings. Festival of [In]Appropriation
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Toronto, Old and New (2024, two versions: live performance 16mm colour & b&w film; video; 18.00)
Joint co-directors Jean-Pierre Marchant & John Price
Music: Greg Jones
Juxtaposing found footage, paper ephemera, and newly shot 16mm material, “Toronto, Old and New” explores the relationship between past and present in Canada’s largest city.
The Places We Lived (2022, video, colour & b&w, 24.00)
The Places We Lived uses a large family archive of Super8 and digital home movies from the mid-1970s to late 1990s to grapple with the hopes, dreams, and disappointments of two South American immigrants who moved to Montreal in the wake of the excitement and optimism of Expo ’67.
screenings. aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Toronto), International Portrait Film Fest (Sofia, Bulgaria)
awards. Best Documentary, aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival
A Parent’s Wishlist (2021, video, colour & b&w, 6.16)
A short film about upward mobility and working class aspirations, A Parent's Wishlist focuses on a set of objects that could be found in many North American homes between the middle to late 20th century, and how they came to symbolise my father's wish for a better life.
screenings. Galvanized Suns Film Festival (Hosted by Diasporic Futurisms), International Portrait Film Fest (Sofia, Bulgaria), Video Fever Festival (Trinity Square Video)
A Life on the Borderlands (2021, video, colour & b&w, 9.03)
A film focusing on my father, who immigrated to Montreal from Chile in the early 1970s after a hard-scrabble life on the streets of Santiago as a youth. Like my mother, who immigrated from Argentina around that time, his mobile life was characterised by neither chain migration nor lasting social ties with members of his ethnic group. His story is also one about class, politics, and complicated histories of migration and exile.
screenings. Lockdown Film Fest (Toronto), WNDX (Winnipeg), Photophobia (Hamilton)
awards. TLN Telelatino Essay Prize