I Forgot How to Speak Spanish, (2018-2019)
I Forgot How to Speak Spanish is a film narrative of my childhood hometown and household in Junction Boulevard, Queens, NY. The narrative is led by the voiceover of ‘La Babosa,’ a second generation Dominican American. Her voiceover leads us through notions of what is home, where does La Babosa belong, childhood nostalgia and questions of how she experiences her identity as a Dominican American.
Together with a cast and crew of family, friends, and locals, we revisit familiar family routines and spaces of my family’s Dominican-American heritage. Cast and location have been appropriated into an eerie, hyper visual, and cinematic journey of our identity as a Dominican-American family. As a second-generation Dominican-American, I look back on my youth, contemplating what home means to me and questioning my identity. I elaborate on notions from her film in the accompanying series of portraits ‘La Ciguapa’.
I Forgot How to Speak Spanish, (2018-2019)
I Forgot How to Speak Spanish is a film narrative of my childhood hometown and household in Junction Boulevard, Queens, NY. The narrative is led by the voiceover of ‘La Babosa,’ a second generation Dominican American. Her voiceover leads us through notions of what is home, where does La Babosa belong, childhood nostalgia and questions of how she experiences her identity as a Dominican American.
Together with a cast and crew of family, friends, and locals, we revisit familiar family routines and spaces of my family’s Dominican-American heritage. Cast and location have been appropriated into an eerie, hyper visual, and cinematic journey of our identity as a Dominican-American family. As a second-generation Dominican-American, I look back on my youth, contemplating what home means to me and questioning my identity. I elaborate on notions from her film in the accompanying series of portraits ‘La Ciguapa’.