Movies: Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau

When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered ...

From Mennonite musings on the Amazonian pampas to wild Havana nights and bittersweet Rio love songs, if a roller-coaster of same sex desire is what you seek, The Latin Boys will take you there. The 6 short films are: Unicorn [Unicornio] (2014); The ...

Every weekend at an illegal drag show in the suburbs of Havana, Sebastián, a 17-year-old Cuban teenager, transforms into 'Mila Caos', his empowered, flamboyant alter-ego. When he returns to his daytime self, Sebastián suffers from his mother's indiff...

In the middle of the Colombian coffee region, Aribada, the resurrected monster, meets Las Traviesas, a group of indigenous transwomen from the Emberá tribes. The magical, the dreamlike and the performative coexist in their unique world - an aesthetic...

An artist penetrates him/herself with a cob of transgenic corn in the middle of a field, unawares that death is near. His/her sister Ana, who has been following him/her with his/her ashes, embarks on a journey into the Amazon forest that will become ...

In the middle of the night, a broken heart finds music in the arms of beautiful strangers....

Using poetic visual language, OCTAVIA’S VISIONS interweaves Butler’s worlds with contemporary issues of environmental degradation, far right extremism, and social liberation. The poetic piece expresses a queer utopian imaginary, a longing to create o...

A series of drawings are used as a score for ating. These images portrait different representations of the devil in hell. Among these devils, there are feminized characteres suggesting sexual perversions typified in the Catholic imagination. Performe...

A foley artist creates sounds for a film starring a dressage horse, with a thrilling performance from queer artist and performer Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau....

A Berlin artist, experimenting with life as an extraterrestrial, witnesses the murder of a prostitute and transforms into a mutant femme-fatale avenger....

A film about two apocalyptic sissies between Bogota, Berlin and Cartagena. One is a dancer, the other a Filmmaker. What starts as a documentary about a dancer, transforms slowly into a performance for film. The performances they create play with the ...