EARTHBODY(S)_BIOME(TRICS)
WWARNING: this video contains strobe lights, flickering, flashing, glitching,and blinking effects that can trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy
Festivals and Screenings
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- London Short Film Festival at Rich Mix ︎ and the British Film Institute ︎
- Tour de Moon’s Moon Cinema at Leicester, Newcastle, and Southampton - United Kingdom
- Biomimicry - SET Woolich - Woolich, United Kingdom
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Casa Familiar + The FRONT's 16th Annual Dia de la Mujer Exhibition: Womxn, Words & Weaving - San Diego, California
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Conqueer Shorts - Cube Microplex - Bristol, UK
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chand is heartbroken by human biome(trics)’ destruction on yatu
overshadowed by grief, chand refuses to align with yatu
without chand and yatu's lunar eclipse and gravitational pull
yatu's brain coral reefs no longer spawn sanctuaries for a naiad
forests of joint pines suffer from dehydration
and cannot weep pollinating droplets to nourish a patia’nak gubat
naiad and patia’nak gubat communicate their impending extinction through marine fungi and mycelium root messaging
naiad and patia’nak gubat conjure chand and yatus’ metamorphosis by intertwining in cocoon webs ritual
patia’nak gubat and naiad’s cocoon webs realign chand and yatu’s orbit for revolutions to come
chand’s light embraces yatu’s biosphere and their bond regenerates patia’nak gubat, naiad, and all earthbody(s)
overshadowed by grief, chand refuses to align with yatu
without chand and yatu's lunar eclipse and gravitational pull
yatu's brain coral reefs no longer spawn sanctuaries for a naiad
forests of joint pines suffer from dehydration
and cannot weep pollinating droplets to nourish a patia’nak gubat
naiad and patia’nak gubat communicate their impending extinction through marine fungi and mycelium root messaging
naiad and patia’nak gubat conjure chand and yatus’ metamorphosis by intertwining in cocoon webs ritual
patia’nak gubat and naiad’s cocoon webs realign chand and yatu’s orbit for revolutions to come
chand’s light embraces yatu’s biosphere and their bond regenerates patia’nak gubat, naiad, and all earthbody(s)
directed, written, produced, filmed, and edited by mirrored fatality
music, cinematography, sound design, make-up, hair, costumes, set design, and lighting by mirrored fatality
starring mango gwen + samar (mirrored fatality)
commissioned by tour de moon
music, cinematography, sound design, make-up, hair, costumes, set design, and lighting by mirrored fatality
starring mango gwen + samar (mirrored fatality)
commissioned by tour de moon
VALE
WARNING: this video contains strobe lights, flickering, flashing, glitching,and blinking effects that can trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy
Festivals and Screenings
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- Summonings. Old Spirits, new spirituality. Exhibition - Centro Negra AADK Spain - Blanca, Murcia, Spain
- Matrix Exhibition curated by Tracey Ren - Root Division - San Francisco, California ︎
- 143rd Dimension: A Black and Brown Queer Punk Festival - The Lab - San Francisco, California ︎
- APAture 2022 “Autonomy” Film Showcase - Roxie Theatre - San Francisco, California ︎
- Unpop Short Film Fest - Ultrastar Cinema’s Mission Valley Hazard Center - San Diego, California ︎
- Video Club - fortuna, Berlin and Santiago, Chile ︎
- Kill Time Trash - WESS - Seoul, Korea
- City Rat Collective - Edinburgh, Scotland
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We hiked a bridge to nowhere and at the end were metal locks scratched with names to symbolize eternal love. We gazed at a vale in the middle of forest mountains with a river vortex flowing to nourish the four corners of the farming town: Negra (so-called Blanca), Murcia, Spain with its abundant lemons, grapes, olives, and oranges. Down below were dogs, baby sharks, ducks, butterflies, and murmurations.
VALE is a tale honoring the world building created when moments of reciprocal, trusting, and sacred love for our lovers and the lands we protect & steward are prioritized and fought for.
VALE contains field recordings of our immersion during our residency at Centro Negra with AADK Spain: the church bell that rings every hour, the 2022 New Years countdown, parades, farms, climbing the top of Valle de Ricote, and the industrial dam at the center of Negra.
the valley opens
when two mountains kiss
and erupt saliva in four directions.
we are lovers
and our slime erodes barriers.
we build shrines in our eyes
and offer ribs onto altars.
in soaked beds,
we are harvesting
an undoing of what once was.
the world regenerates.
VALE is a tale honoring the world building created when moments of reciprocal, trusting, and sacred love for our lovers and the lands we protect & steward are prioritized and fought for.
VALE contains field recordings of our immersion during our residency at Centro Negra with AADK Spain: the church bell that rings every hour, the 2022 New Years countdown, parades, farms, climbing the top of Valle de Ricote, and the industrial dam at the center of Negra.
the valley opens
when two mountains kiss
and erupt saliva in four directions.
we are lovers
and our slime erodes barriers.
we build shrines in our eyes
and offer ribs onto altars.
in soaked beds,
we are harvesting
an undoing of what once was.
the world regenerates.
directed, produced, edited, filmed, choreography, costume, make-up by mirrored fatality, samar’s skirt by wizard.wears444
effects by: lil_sagna, eomzie, chungcy, pixelchefs, davidoreilly, cint.arias, and mrmikev1
VALE written, produced, mixed, and recorded by mirrored fatality
mastered by KOJI
created at our AADK Spain x Centro Negra Residency in Blanca, Muscia, Spain in January 2022.
effects by: lil_sagna, eomzie, chungcy, pixelchefs, davidoreilly, cint.arias, and mrmikev1
VALE written, produced, mixed, and recorded by mirrored fatality
mastered by KOJI
created at our AADK Spain x Centro Negra Residency in Blanca, Muscia, Spain in January 2022.
BLOOM
Festivals and Screenings
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- August 6-8, 2020 - Enter the Portal: The Multivers is Illuminated 2020 - Zoom
- Disco Riot - Queer Movement Festival - Film Screening - 10th Avenue Arts Center - San Diego, California
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- Rolling Stones India ︎
- Abolition is ︎
- The Space in Between Gallery ︎
- Unite Asia ︎
- HARM REDUCTION + HEALING #002 Zine Bloom Zine Collective ︎
The BLOOM music video features soundscapes and footage from immersing ourselves in nature as we ground in our souls as bodies existing outside of isolation, capitalism, gender dysphoria, and the prison state. BLOOM was written together at the top of a mountain in Happy Valley in Tongva Land, so-called East Los Angeles at Sarita Doe and Champoy yurt dwelling ceremony.
BLOOM unearths diasporic queer spirituality and harnesses our ancestral languages- Urdu and Kapampangan.
BLOOM is a prayer to honor the bonds of our love that expands and brings regeneration into our multiverse. BLOOM is a spell to inspire deeper connections to our Earth and welcome in freedom and joy for ourselves and kin.
corporations own our water, pushed out BIPOC farmers, and tourism poisoned the salton sea. as water protectors we must bloom new beginnings.
directed by mirrored fatality
produced by mirrored fatality
filmed by princess amugo, alea skye, and mirrored fatality
edited by mirrored fatality
make-up and costumes by mirrored fatality
produced by mirrored fatality
filmed by princess amugo, alea skye, and mirrored fatality
edited by mirrored fatality
make-up and costumes by mirrored fatality