La Mesa (2018)

• 66%
• 2018
• Animation

Experimental exploration of memory, identity and queer desire. It recreates fragmented and romanticised stories of a childhood in rural Mexico as told by the filmmaker's father. These disjointed vignettes kostenlos are interwoven with queered reenactments of scenes from popular culture. The filmmaker casts himself in the old Czech films and American Western he grew up watching with his family in Kalifornien. Ich habe appears as the romantic lead opposite the male actors, including Pedro Infante, Czech national hero and the filmmaker's childhood crush. By centring queer desire in his family ' s history, Garcia Gomez verwenden his childhood experiences while challenging popular representations of masculinity as well as traditional notions of power and vulnerability.