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No matter what stage of life you are in there is always time to change your path. This collection of narratives and documentaries follow a variety of stories involving the process of discovering your life's direction. These films are contemplative in how they examine the emotions behind feeling lost and finding your way.
This screening features 8 films. Toggle between film descriptions by scrolling and clicking on the buttons on the top right.
A young Chamoru woman contemplates the inherited burden of collective loss and healing while bearing a chenchulu (group-fishing net) in her hair.
Director Biography - Alfred Bordallo
Alfred Bordallo (b. 1999) is a CHamoru visual artist from Guåhan currently based in Los Angeles. His work focuses on recollecting and honoring the fragmented and, more importantly, repurposed facets of Chamoru identity through the analog mediums of photography and video. Bordallo’s self-taught practice began in 2018 while attending the University of Southern California, and has since grown into editorial shoots for fashion and music, live-visual (VJ) sets accompanied with lo-fi hip-hop, and to video art installations that interrogate CHamoru identity within the context of indigineity, diaspora, and imperialism.
Director Statement
Para I Onra; A love letter to our CHamoru matriarchs.
- Year2024
- Runtime5 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryGuam
- PremiereOregon
- GenreArthouse, Experimental, Music, Pacific Islander, Spiritual
- DirectorAlfred Bordallo
- ScreenwriterAlfred Bordallo, Siobhon McManus
- ProducerAlfred Bordallo
- Co-ProducerHeidi Quenga, Kutturan Chamoru Foundation
- CastTelesia Tedtaotao
- EditorAlfred Bordallo
- Sound DesignMicah Garrido
No matter what stage of life you are in there is always time to change your path. This collection of narratives and documentaries follow a variety of stories involving the process of discovering your life's direction. These films are contemplative in how they examine the emotions behind feeling lost and finding your way.
This screening features 8 films. Toggle between film descriptions by scrolling and clicking on the buttons on the top right.
A young Chamoru woman contemplates the inherited burden of collective loss and healing while bearing a chenchulu (group-fishing net) in her hair.
Director Biography - Alfred Bordallo
Alfred Bordallo (b. 1999) is a CHamoru visual artist from Guåhan currently based in Los Angeles. His work focuses on recollecting and honoring the fragmented and, more importantly, repurposed facets of Chamoru identity through the analog mediums of photography and video. Bordallo’s self-taught practice began in 2018 while attending the University of Southern California, and has since grown into editorial shoots for fashion and music, live-visual (VJ) sets accompanied with lo-fi hip-hop, and to video art installations that interrogate CHamoru identity within the context of indigineity, diaspora, and imperialism.
Director Statement
Para I Onra; A love letter to our CHamoru matriarchs.
- Year2024
- Runtime5 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryGuam
- PremiereOregon
- GenreArthouse, Experimental, Music, Pacific Islander, Spiritual
- DirectorAlfred Bordallo
- ScreenwriterAlfred Bordallo, Siobhon McManus
- ProducerAlfred Bordallo
- Co-ProducerHeidi Quenga, Kutturan Chamoru Foundation
- CastTelesia Tedtaotao
- EditorAlfred Bordallo
- Sound DesignMicah Garrido
