Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! A short documentary that follows a mobile archiving center in a cargo trailer as it crosses the Midwest to digitize the VHS tapes of LGBTQ+ folks living in Middle America. In real time digitizing sessions, contributors watch their own histories as they are being preserved, and reveal a look into queer life in the Bible Belt since the 1980s. This film takes a road trip through the past into the present, and gives us a glimpse of what an ever-expanding queer archive looks like in the future.
Director & Producer – Brydie O’Connor
Editors – Sean Weiner & Brydie O’Connor
Cinematographer – Sarah Simka Jaffe
Colorist – CJ Julian
Sound Mix and Design – Jon Flores
With support from –
UFO Short Film Lab
Frameline Completion Fund
Brooklyn Arts Council
MAAF WaveFarm