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Documentation By Nicole Won, New Ngam, Maria Pelayo

Video Editing: & Direction Yoli Alma-Flor

Featured in Video: Yoyo Romero, Canelo Cabrera, Leti Morales, New Ngam, Christhmus Presence, Champoy Lim, Hop Nguyen, Uta Tamate Weiss, Yoli Alma-Flor

“Rain Lluvia” (20min film) is video art piece , part of a greater multimedia prayer, for the Rain to cleanse the wound of genocide as it lives on in the bodies of IndigiQueer/Qtbipoc beings and as it lives here on this Earth.

A Teatro De La Vida performance ensemble came together to create the improvisational choreography that was the RainLluvia Live Performance. The live documentation of the event and pieces of footage in the desert were woven together in this video.

My artistic goal with this video was to transform performance documentation into something that captured the essence and ephemeral experience of what occurred in this overall prayer and at the live performance. The memory of what happened isn’t as important to me as the memory of what was felt, and I wanted to transform the performance documentation to reflect that.

Across mediums, Rain Lluvia followed this poem as an embodied meditation and prayer inspiring the direction of the video as well:

We emerge from the 7 Caves of Creation (Chicomoztoc)

Crossing the choppy waters within “the memory of our blood” on a canoe

On this journey we come to see the hauntings we carry with us to the other

shore

In the breath of it all, we make this journey to lay our offerings for the Rain

(Tlaloc)

To be touched by the Water From The Sky

And cleanse the Earth that lives within each of us

As a prayer so that the children can be free from the worlds and futures we

have seeded