Through voice notes, dinner table recordings, and home videos, a Dominican and Haitian-American friendship becomes the lens for an interwoven family archive. The film explores first-gen identity, diaspora, and intergenerational memory, while questioning why records of these histories remain in colonial archives like Spain’s Archivo General de Indias.
I co-directed this short film as an artist-in-residence at the 7ajar School of Creative Research/Resistance, a workshop grounded in DIY storytelling and Palestinian contexts of solidarity. Bringing together art and design students and practitioners from around the world, we explored a shared theme: family archives as catalysts for narrative and collective memory making. You can view the cohort’s final films here. In addition to screening at the 2025 Boston Palestine Film Festival, the films have screened in Japan, Canada and Palestine.