Our Body Is an Expanding Star - Movie

Our Body Is an Expanding Star

Semillites Hernández Velasco, Tania Hernández Velasco
Documentary : 84' / Landscape, Non-binary, Gender, Bodies, Family

Semillites and Tania, two queer siblings bound by a powerful friendship, journey through the brown terrain of their own bodies, lands they once rejected. They traverse landscapes of skin, dreams, and viscera, crossing into places that pulse with their family’s memory. Along the way, they encounter a constellation of relatives and ancestors (their mother, father, grandmother, but also flowers, grasshoppers and fossils) who guide them in reimagining identity beyond Mexico’s colonial narratives.

/ EXHIBITION

Lisboa

September 22 | 16h00 | Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3 Buy Tickets

Sections: QL - Queer Art Competition
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Year: 2025

Country: Mexico

Language: spanish, english

Subtitles: english

With: Semillites Hernández Velasco, Tania Hernández Velasco, Miguel G. Hernández Enciso, Yolanda Velasco Juárez, Concepción Velasco Zárate, María Velasco Juárez, Hilda Velasco Juárez

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Semillites Hernández Velasco, Tania Hernández Velasco

Mexico

Semillites Hernández Velasco (he/him/his) is a brown and trans multidisciplinary artist and community arts worker based in Vancouver, Canada, on the Unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. He was born in Mexico City and migrated north at the age of nineteen. Working across film-making, drawing, DJing and animation, his practice is rooted in celebrating imperfection that is expressed through self-portraiture. As an artist and cultural worker, he is dedicated to collaborating with and supporting migrant, BIPOC, and queer communities.

Tania Hernández Velasco (they/them/their - she/her/hers) is a filmmaker and film educator based in Ciudad de México. Through intimate, collaborative, sensory, and speculative gestures, their films entangle and reimagine body, territory and identity in the center of so-called México. Through cinema, they seek to nurture expanded bonds of kinship between land, human and more-than-human beings. Their films have been screened in more than 60 international film festivals, including IDFA, Ann Arbor and FICUNAM, among others.