Benni Quintero

Getting an internship at NASA just to find out that space is fake on the first day, Barber has to navigate their family life, a cult preacher dad and complicated friendships in search of meaning and belonging.

After receiving a VHS tape claiming she's a disciple of an alien species known as the "True Mothers," Amy joins a local UFO cult, donning the name Celisse and befriending a number of other members while under the watch of the cult's peculiar founder, Ascensia.

The universe is waking up to itself, prophets are receiving visions, and God-defying towers formed in hedonistic abundance are toppling over. There is an aura of pathetic surrender surrounding you. Armies formed from eating scraps emerge, ready for battle, with powerful weapons fashioned from air, through the effort of their sheer will, realizing that the foe isn't the force it seemed. The fourth film in Jonni Pepper-GoLions' "The Blindfold" series, which includes her films "Wasteland", "Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners", and "Barber Westchester". This film sets up the upcoming finale to the series, "The Cone Layer".

Getting an internship at NASA just to find out that space is fake on the first day, Barber has to navigate their family life, a cult preacher dad and complicated friendships in search of meaning and belonging.

After receiving a VHS tape claiming she's a disciple of an alien species known as the "True Mothers," Amy joins a local UFO cult, donning the name Celisse and befriending a number of other members while under the watch of the cult's peculiar founder, Ascensia.

After receiving a VHS tape claiming she's a disciple of an alien species known as the "True Mothers," Amy joins a local UFO cult, donning the name Celisse and befriending a number of other members while under the watch of the cult's peculiar founder, Ascensia.

After receiving a VHS tape claiming she's a disciple of an alien species known as the "True Mothers," Amy joins a local UFO cult, donning the name Celisse and befriending a number of other members while under the watch of the cult's peculiar founder, Ascensia.

A mixed media animated piece which utilizes acrylic paint on cels, a camera obscura, stop motion puppetry, shadows, after effects, a scanner, and an exuberant amount of glitter dubbed “random disco flakes”. Originally a zine, Queenie and the All or Nothing Thin King is a short film that follows the internal and unhealthy thought processes of a little felted blobby person named Queenie.

This short explores the filmmakers family as they struggled to accept their child's transition from female to male.

This short explores the filmmakers family as they struggled to accept their child's transition from female to male.