About the project:

video · 17:16 · UK · English & Spanish

How DO we sleep while our beds are burning? is part essay, part performance, and part documentary, based on the filmmaker’s exploration of queer histories of violence in Latin America and their representations in media. Focusing on the recurring image of burning beds, the film departs from the question; How can we reappropriate these images of violence and create new, emancipatory narratives around queer kinship and resilience? The filmmaker assembles a montage of photographs, testimonies, and affections from his transnational Latino queer friends, weaving their voices into the intimate space of his own bed.