Lázaro González Visit

Lázaro González

The Vulnerable Media Lab is thrilled to announce and honoured to host visiting artist-in-residence, Lázaro González, from 24 October–7 November. González is a Queer Cuban American filmmaker, independent director, audiovisual producer, and writer who works with an array of archives in his practice. His areas of interest include queer cinema, non-fiction storytelling, and Latin American film and media production. 

A special screening of select Lázaro González's films will be held at The Screening Room on 1 November, 5:30pm. Co-sponsored with reelout, the public screening will be followed by a Q & A with González. For free tickets visit: 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lazaro-gonzalez-queer-cuba-across-all-borders-free-public-screening-qa-tickets-445553270827

The two films he will show are:

Villa Rosa (2016, 50 min, Cuba, Span. with Eng. subtitles): Caibarien was one of the most prosperous Cuba fishing villages. Now their progress seems due, rather, to the LGBTI activism of many of its inhabitants.

Sexilio (2022, in progress, 60 min, USA-Cuba, Span. and Eng. with Eng. subtitles )
In 1980, thousands of queer Cubans were expelled from their country during the Mariel boatlift. On the other side of the sea, the possible freedom was also vexed by racism, homophobia, resettlement issues,  and the AIDS epidemic. Making a film becomes later a pretext for another queer immigrant to create an archive of those experiences, and to question the unbearable traumas of being in sexile.

Here’s a link to his website. https://www.lazarogonzalezfilms.com/