A stranded dreamer, a bored typist and a defiant transqueerian space captain attempt to rediscover joy in a fantastical #StopAsianHate music video propelled by dance and animation. Outrageously underrepresented in the UK arts, 87% of the creative team were East and/or Southeast Asian or South Asian. Over half were LGBTIQA+, with nearly a third identifying as trans/non-binary/genderqueer. The team included neurodivergent and disabled artists. From the pain of coronaracism and a lifetime of bigotry and invisibility comes this beautiful, fantastical, outspoken, and epic voyage of truth - infusing vivid dance solos, dreamy piano and quirky animated interjections! The track was written by The Mollusc Dimension, a "transqueerian" British Chinese artist and directed by Darius Shu and the artist. Inspired by #StopAsianHate campaigns, solidarity placards by community members and allies also make an appearance, as do paper-mâché "cishet norms" and K-pop-inspired intensity.

Asians Have Feelings Too

 music video features soundscapes and footage from immersing ourselves in nature as we ground in our souls as bodies existing outside of isolation, capitalism, gender dysphoria, and the prison state. 

 was written together at the top of a mountain in Happy Valley in Tongva Land, so-called East Los Angeles at Sarita Doe and Champoy yurt dwelling ceremony.



 unearths diasporic queer spirituality and harnesses our ancestral languages - Urdu and Kapampangan.



 is a prayer to honor the bonds of our love that expands and brings regeneration into our multiverse. 

 is a spell to inspire deeper connections to our Earth and welcome in freedom and joy for ourselves and kin.

corporations own our water, pushed out BIPOC farmers, and tourism poisoned the salton sea. as water protectors we must bloom new beginnings.


BLOOM

, directed by Giada Bossi, the protagonist levitates from the bedroom to the club in a surreal narrative. The song’s house beat initially mimics a muffled heartbeat before the stillness erupts into a joyous club track just as the scene shifts to the dancefloor.


The video ends back in the bedroom after an explosive psychedelic sequence that leaves the viewer wondering whether what transpired was a dream or reality.


 is taken from Milan-based L I M’s debut album GLOWING, which tells the artist’s personal story of self-discovery, and was written after a long period of “work, healing and transformation ”. The album was written alongside L I M’s longtime friend and collaborator Stefano Riva. “We worked for two years and a half about this glittering revelation, we choose to unfold the journey of discovery, my identity and the collective experience linked to it,” L I M writes “I decided to fully embrace my identity and body and to everyone who can relate to this process I send you all my unconditionally love and support.”


The video was directed by Giada Bossi, an Italian director whose approach "combines storytelling with an aesthetic approach to documentary and narrative. It is an ode to transformation, a current “coming of age” story about
self-discovery and embracement, about body and identity, talking about L I M and many others going through the same path,” Giada Bossi says of the video’s concept. “Dreams and reality merge, in a journey that has to face others: it is just through the support of people around, that the protagonist dives into himself to embrace his essence.” GLOWING is released on February 18, 2022 on La Tempesta Dischi. Follow L I M on Instagram and find his music on Spotify. Find Giada Bossi at Instagram.

BUBU

The video features couples and individuals listening the song First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes on headphones presumably for the first time. In 2006 it received a special recognition from GLAAD for its inclusivity. Notable to mention - it features a group of lesbians, gender non-confirming people and trans sweetheart Daniel Sea with their then partner Bitch aka Capital B.

The song itself came out in 2005, however, the official video available on YouTube right now is from 2006.

Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life [Official Music Video]

In the COVID-19 pandemic, mirrored fatality transverses through planet earth as international multi-hyphenated artists & farmers. 

 is an eco apocalyptic survival hit to fortify themselves towards food sovereignty & the collapse of the exploitative surveillance state. 

 is a prayer and their reflections from leaving the concrete jungle and restoring in sacred lands, regenerative farms, community gardens, and QTBIPOC (Queer Trans Black Indigenous People of Color) sanctuary projects on Indigenous land. 

 is an immersive journey about how we are stripped from our ancestral lands and pushed into cities suffering from COVID-19, food apartheid, the police state, and environmental racism.

chand is heartbroken by human biome(trics)’ destruction on yatu

overshadowed by grief, chand refuses to align with yatu

without chand and yatu's lunar eclipse and gravitational pull

yatu's brain coral reefs no longer spawn sanctuaries for a naiad

forests of joint pines suffer from dehydration

and cannot weep pollinating droplets to nourish a patia’nak gubat

naiad and patia’nak gubat communicate their impending extinction through marine fungi and mycelium root messaging

naiad and patia’nak gubat conjure chand and yatus’ metamorphosis by intertwining in cocoon webs ritual

patia’nak gubat and naiad’s cocoon webs realign chand and yatu’s orbit for revolutions to come

chand’s light embraces yatu’s biosphere and their bond regenerates patia’nak gubat, naiad, and all earthbody(s)

EARTHBODY(S)_BIOME(TRICS)


our non-linear disentanglement invocation channeling the hybridity of animals+cyborgs+transhumans: the laman haywan and labuad meklooq (kampangan_urdu for: flesh beast and earth creature) - the multispecies inhabitants of 2022 & 3033 living on ecocide 3urth: the corpses of natural ecosystems of planet earth murdered by apathetic humans and artificial intelligence seeking vengeance. our wails ascend us out of pits of lava + untouched seabeds contaminated by technological trash + nuclear shrapnel. as laman haywan and labuad meklooq, we symbiotically conjoin in the wreckage of deserted laboratories, holy ruins, & subaltern fires to evolve and reckon with our retribution.




joining together to change for
nourishment and those who feed
to transfuse
(zyg) - joining together
(mut) - to change
(troph) - for nourishment / those who feed
(00ze) - to transfuse


PRIMALDIAL MAGMA_ZYGMUTROPHOOZE

Trans masc co-direction between sibling filmmakers Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer and Sopo Ramischwili for Armenian singer Sona Koloyan. 

During production we spoke about West Asian erasure and the feelings of going under in the big city of London, which is diverse and full of so many cultures but can still make you feel disappeared.

Please Say Hello To Me

We hiked a bridge to nowhere and at the end were metal locks scratched with names to symbolize eternal love. We gazed at a vale in the middle of forest mountains with a river vortex flowing to nourish the four corners of the farming town: Negra (so-called Blanca), Murcia, Spain with its abundant lemons, grapes, olives, and oranges. Down below were dogs, baby sharks, ducks, butterflies, and murmurations.

 is a tale honoring the world building created when moments of reciprocal, trusting, and sacred love for our lovers and the lands we protect & steward are prioritized and fought for.

 contains field recordings of our immersion during our residency at Centro Negra with AADK Spain: the church bell that rings every hour, the 2022 New Years countdown, parades, farms, climbing the top of Valle de Ricote, and the industrial dam at the center of Negra.

VALE

I made this video just after my top surgery and it was the first time I had taken off my compression vest for that amount of time, with my collaborator who is currently raising funds for their top surgery. 

 was the last thing I made under that name and touches on the feelings and life of being trans masc.

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