presented in collaboration with
without architecture, there would be no Stonewall; without architecture, there would be no "brick"
This film will be screened on 16mm at 18fps with a live score by Nudo and Desvelada. Admission is free.
“It was by making LACRIMA CHRISTI that I realized at all levels, the fact of belonging to two cultures, of carrying two opposite bloods in my veins.”
Teo Hernandez’s film is a portrait of a fractured self clutching onto a shadow world of half-remembered myths. Fusing biblical tropes with psychedelic camerawork, Lacrima Christi rubs the mundane and mythological worlds together until they breakdown into hypnotic pulsations of light and movement. These pulsations build into a frenetic energy that dilates the mind’s eye to induce a trance-like state.
Hernandez embraced states of delirium at his screenings, improvising music and obsessively altering the projector speed to further disorient the audience. Unapologetically mobile, impermanent, and mutable Hernández offers a site to think about Queerness in relation to an unfixed place.
Nudo is a psychic handshake/brain trust between Joaquin Tenorio and Eric Hernandez. Hailing from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuaha Mexico and Eagle Pass, Texas USA, respectively. Their music was initially birthed from daisy-chained 4 tracks, countless youtube pages being run through MaxMSP, hours of talking about border slang, cholo memes, niche Norteño also-rans, industrial and state mass manipulation, and the bittersweet reality of growing up on either side of the notorious TexMex border.
Desvelada is a DJ, visual artist, and occasional producer with a background in choir originally from Mexico City. She has recently relocated to NYC after growing up in Texas and finishing a degree in film. The focus of her music is to invoke nostalgic ideations, and her sets reflect her attitude of intentional disorder and are genre blenders. Collaborating with Paris-based producer Sprælle with the track “Quieto” where she recalls a memory of an incident where a man punched a window and bled throughout her house. Desvelada has exhibited her visual work and guest mixes with the Montréal based radio station N10.as.