Alexandra Gelis Movies
- 2024
Fields of Presence
Fields of Presence02024HD
This poetic experimental documentary is a tribute to the multifaceted life of Brianna, Jorge Lozano's daughter, a collaborative reflection...
- 2019
Language, not territory
Language, not territory02019HD
In a number of interlocking episodes, five women weigh in on growing up in capitalism. Poetries of survival are interwoven with an adaptation of Mary...
- 2016
Illegal_its Impact on the Body
Illegal_its Impact on the Body02016HD
A compilation from histories of illegal immigrants in Canada, nomadic friends who quickly disappeared into new identities or were forcibly...
- 2020
Doing and Undoing: Poems from within at Oboro
Doing and Undoing: Poems from within at Oboro02020HD
Hacer y Deshacer: Poems from Within (2019) is an interactive video installation. Most of the video sequences show Gelis’s mother undressing,...
- 2021
Exits and Entries
Exits and Entries02021HD
Entries are Exit points to more complex Entries. It is a visual exploration, an assemblage of forces. The doing an undoing's of my mother: a warrior....
- 2020
ALERTA . ALERTA . ALERTA
ALERTA . ALERTA . ALERTA02020HD
Marching politics: a tribute to the feminist struggle in Latin America. Recorded at the Women’s March in Lima, Peru, 2019.
- 2018
The Island
The Island02018HD
A garden between Oakland and Berkley where its inhabitants, marginalized by gentrification, plant fruit trees and flowers to pay homage to their...
- 2014
Rhizomatic Directed Simulation
Rhizomatic Directed Simulation02014HD
The movie opens with a quote from Borges: "The best imitation consists of the original's destruction and the creation of a self referential text."...
- 2015
Stratigraphies
Stratigraphies02015HD
Sytratigraphies is a hyper kinetic masterpiece of a travelogue offering glimpses of scenes shot in your native Columbia, New York, Toronto and...
- 2009
Borders
Borders02009HD
An intimate exploration of the bodies belonging to six queer individuals. This animation, made up of hundreds of high-resolution photographs,...