I Forgot How to Speak Spanish, 2018
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. Both 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, Rahimtoola looks back on her youth, contemplating what home means to her and questioning her identity. She elaborates on notions from her film in the accompanying series of portraits ‘La Ciguapa’.
Director: Sydney Rahimtoola
Director of Photography: Frisly Soberanis
Editor: Saffia Rahimtoola
Gaffer: Lucas Gonzalez
Score: Marco Giashi
AC: Josue Loayza
Portraits: Sydney Rahimtoola
Installation: Sydney Rahimtoola
Installation: Philip
Design: Malik Saïb-Mezghiche
I Forgot How to Speak Spanish, 2018
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. Both 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, Rahimtoola looks back on her youth, contemplating what home means to her and questioning her identity. She elaborates on notions from her film in the accompanying series of portraits ‘La Ciguapa’.
Director: Sydney Rahimtoola
Director of Photography: Frisly Soberanis
Editor: Saffia Rahimtoola
Gaffer: Lucas Gonzalez
Score: Marco Giashi
AC: Josue Loayza
Portraits: Sydney Rahimtoola
Installation: Sydney Rahimtoola
Installation: Philip
Design: Malik Saïb-Mezghiche