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Sweatmother is an award-winning Latinx, trans, queer filmmaker and artist, and creator of the Otherness Archive.[1] He is a co-organiser of London Trans+ Pride and his work focuses on queer bodies and sexuality through archival footage and experimental video techniques, including 'triple-baking' using a video synthesiser.[2]
Career
[edit]Sweatmother is an independent experimental filmmaker, artist and performer based in London. Sweatmother has shown his film work, documenting contemporary queer life experience and community, internationally. Sweatmother's film, Untitled, was shown at several film festivals and selected at the 69th Official Competition Oberhausen's 69th Film Festival and placed 1st Prize Jury of the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia.[3] His documentation of trans and queer protest in London was selected as part of Venice Biennial Arte 2024, shown as part of the 'Disobedience Archive.'[4]
Sweatmother frequently works with musicians and in nightlife. Sweatmother created visuals for Kylie Minogue's 2023 Las Vegas Residency, for the opening night of Christine and the Queens' Meltdown Festival in 2023 in London, and for experimental queer musician aya's live show.[5][6][7] Sweatmother is a long-term resident artist of queer rave INFERNO, creating films, visuals and live performances including Dyke, Just Do it, which was further commissioned and developed by the ICA.[1]
Otherness Archive
[edit]Sweatmother created and maintains the Otherness Archive, launched in January 2023, an online collection of queer archival films and new works from contemporary queer filmmakers.[8] Sweatmother has claimed that the "Otherness Archive defies the historic censorship of homosexual, trans and racial themes, and instead highlights them as representations of otherness that deserve equal, if not greater, recognition."[9] It has so far focused on films related to a trans-masculine queer experience.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ghaziani, Amin (2024). Long live queer nightlife: how the closing of gay bars sparked a revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-25385-5.
- ^ "The Subversive Artistry of Trans Latinx Filmmaker Sweatmother". Muse by Clio. 27 October 2020. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ gGmbH, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2023-05-01). "The Award Winners of the 69th Festival". Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen gGmbH. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ Article, Jo Lawson-Tancred ShareShare This (2024-01-31). "Marginalized Artists are Front and Center at the 2024 Venice Biennale". Artnet News. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ "Aya | English". Metal Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ "Kylie Minogue Vegas Residency". Studio Moross. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ "Late night programme announced for Christine and the Queens' Meltdown". Crack Magazine. 2023-04-24. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ "Otherness Archive on the Importance of Platforming Trans and Queer Filmmaking". Polyester. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ Barquin, Juan (2023-01-31). "Otherness Archive Makes the Past Present". INTO. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ "Meet the New Queer Archive Creating a Home for Trans Films". In These Times. 2023-06-16. Retrieved 2024-04-30.