Bright Vignettes: How Astoria Got Its Pride
80 minutes, Super 8mm and Digital
Project website: queersborough.net/brightvignettes
2025
Emerging from the primary research of Undisclosed Locations, Bright Vignettes is my first feature-length film and the first opportunity I've had to apply a trauma-informed approach towards building a group narrative that centered geographic milestones, as well as the difficult trajectories of marginalized individuals. Over the course of 24 individual interviews, the narrative tells the story of a place and how different communities have worked jointly to reclaim the public and cultural space they deserve.
TIVP Focus: Historical Erasure; inter-generational trauma, personal survivorship,
Reclaiming of public space/public narrative
