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Operated by a Navajo Nation citizen, Hunt’s Trading Post serves a Native community in a majority-white town. REDEFINE’s documentary short film follows the film’s fantastic, wonderful, amazing, story-filled lead subject — William Wayne Day — through his more than 35 years of running the shop. Go behind-the-scenes of the production and the story through our […]
Multidisciplinary Indigenous artist and community organizer Vaquero Azul (Indigenous Mexican and Boriken-Taíno) describes themselves as “[having their] hands a little bit in everything.’ Whether capturing attention with custom-made cowboy outfit in transgender colors, making illustrations depicting queer love, or hosting events that allow Trans and Two-Spirit individuals from Mesoamerican…
Queer Korean-Chinese American painter and visual artist Eric Chan creates technically-proficient, symbolism-laden paintings that explore his intersecting third culture identities. A self-taught artist, Chan intermixes the personal, familial, and the historical by weaving together sense memories, diverse portrayals of queer and Asian bodies, precious objects pertinent from his childhood or…
Late on a Thursday evening, Octopoulpe headlined a humble show at Mandragora, a beloved community bar in Oaxaca, Mexico. I had been prepared to leave after listening to just one song, but after the squid mask-wearing South Korea-born Frenchie started his energetically-explosive math/noise/hardcore performance, I knew I was in for something different and special. By […]
From March 12 to 18, 300,000 domestic and international visitors poured into Downtown and East Austin again to mix and mingle, and, of course, eat Texas BBQ. It was the 40th year of SXSW and disruption was the name of the game. Programming around Music, Film, Innovation, and Comedy came together in the 95-degree Austin […]
Josef Gatti, a Melbourne-based filmmaker and pioneering cinematographer, spent nearly a decade building the “trippy science concept album” of Phenomena, his feature documentary debut. Phenomena is structured as ten chapters, each exploring a distinct natural phenomenon through meticulously conducted science experiments. Presented in astounding macro detail, the seemingly otherworldly visuals,…
At Sundance 2026, Indonesian director Wregas Bhanuteja premiered Levitating (Para Perasuk), a highly imaginative film about a fictional trance party community in Indonesia. The Indonesian title, Para Perasuk, translates to “the possessors” or “spirit channelers” — a more literal description than the English Levitating. The story centers around Bayu — played by Angga Yunanda — […]
“The truth is, women make the harsher films,” Kira Muratova once told a young Isa Willinger. Such an observation might not be surprising coming from Muratova, the legendary Ukrainian filmmaker known for her convention-bucking embrace of the grotesque and the bizarre in cinema. Arguably one of the most original and formally daring filmmakers of the […]
Monyee Chau, a self-described “queer artist” and “restaurant baby,” hails from Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID), in a diverse part of the city where they still have deep connections and feel profound fondness. Ancestral Connections to the Chinatown-International District & Beyond While their lineage originally comes from Hong Kong and Taiwan, their family first set foot […]
“Welcome! On this screen, I’ll be describing the sonic content of the music in this performance,” writes a slide of black text on a yellow background. The words project behind Virginia-based, disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American multidisciplinary artist JJJJJJerome Ellis, casting them and their large white sweatshirt in something like a yellow-hued silhouette. Later, they’ll tell us that […]
