Alexandra Gelis Movies

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...

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

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...

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."...

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

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

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