Michael Zumaya

A hypnotherapy session with Heather, a traumatized woman, and Dr. Elizabeth Russell takes a strange turn as Heather’s memories appear to be connected to Russell. Using a VHS camcorder as a conduit, Russell digs through Heather’s nightmarish memory fragments to piece together answers about her own troubling past.

Veneration was a ceremony on December 2nd 2023 celebrating queer fashion. The show was created to resemble the human experience - raw, uncomfortable, and very beautiful. The intention for this film was to provide a symphonic introduction to the show. The film represents death and rebirth, ritual and mysticism, reparenting and submission. Through these images, I wanted to honor mother energy, the kind that surrounds us and lives inside us.

After submerging into a bowl of menudo, an undocumented Mexican immigrant in the U.S. embarks on a surreal journey through his memories in Mexico in search of the rosary his mother gave him before he left the country 30 years ago.