Alexandra Gelis Movies

Entries are Exit points to more complex Entries. It is a visual exploration, an assemblage of forces. The doing an undoing's of my mother: a warrior....

A compilation from histories of illegal immigrants in Canada, nomadic friends who quickly disappeared into new identities or were forcibly...

In a number of interlocking episodes, five women weigh in on growing up in capitalism. Poetries of survival are interwoven with an adaptation of Mary...

Marching politics: a tribute to the feminist struggle in Latin America. Recorded at the Women’s March in Lima, Peru, 2019.

Sytratigraphies is a hyper kinetic masterpiece of a travelogue offering glimpses of scenes shot in your native Columbia, New York, Toronto and...

Hacer y Deshacer: Poems from Within (2019) is an interactive video installation. Most of the video sequences show Gelis’s mother undressing,...

A garden between Oakland and Berkley where its inhabitants, marginalized by gentrification, plant fruit trees and flowers to pay homage to their...

The movie opens with a quote from Borges: "The best imitation consists of the original's destruction and the creation of a self referential text."...

An intimate exploration of the bodies belonging to six queer individuals. This animation, made up of hundreds of high-resolution photographs,...