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California Is An Island
11 minute excerpt
16mm & Video
TRT:19 minutes
2009

Drawing on accounts of Conquistador Hernan Cortes‘ attempt to colonize Baja California, 16th Century cartographies, and a romance adventure novel ripe with Amazons; this experimental doc investigates the fantasies, fears, and fetishes of European explorers through a post-colonial queer lens, and with a bawdy sense of humor to boot!