EXPERIMENTAL - DOCUMENTARY - PROJECTION
SELF PORTRAIT
Where does drag end? Where does identity begin?
This is my resistance to society’s obsession with genitalia. I’m re-imagining myself as being full of gender markers and at the same time without. This 1-minute piece captures only a glimpse into my identity, and each moment of it captures a representation of me.
AMPLIFY PARIVAR
Trans and Hijra communities have been asking for help for centuries. Do you hear them?
This piece is comprised of videos I’ve collected from an organization I have been helping throughout the Pandemic, Parivar Bay Area. Parivar means family. Their focus is helping and uplifting the Indian Transgender and Hijra Diaspora. Different Indian Transgender women and Hijra’s sent videos for an online fundraiser campaign that will help bring food, medical supplies and shelter to Transgender women in India. The videos were extremely low in quality as they have been captured by old phone models that these women own. I used the software called Topaz Labs which uses AI to upscale low quality videos up to 8K format. I upscaled each videos and edited the piece in ways I haven’t done before. How else can we amplify trans and Hijra voices in India?
CROWNING MOMENT
Multidimensional projection immersion.
An installation at the 2nd and 3rd year MFast exhibit at MICA summer of 22.
As an ever-increasing share of our lives and thoughts are expressed online, the fight for representation and identity acceptance has moved to digital spaces. #MyNameIs chronicles the fight against Facebook’s discriminatory “real name policy”; a global movement led by drag performers, domestic abuse survivors, immigrants, artists, political activists, Native Americans, African Americans and the LGBTQ community, to maintain their safety and authentic identities on the world’s largest social networking platform.
#mynameis
Email jethrocuenca@gmail.com for password.
50 YEARS OF FABULOUS
A chronicle of the 50-year LGBTQ civil rights movement through the lens of the organization The Imperial Council of San Francisco - the oldest surviving LGBTQ charity organization in the world.
MYREVOLUTIONARY MOTHER
A filmmaker confronts his political activist mother about his feelings of abandonment after being separated for 20 years.