My feet and freedom from the inside-out
In 1999 I got a grant to take a super 8 hand-processing film workshop at a local independent theatre called “The Blinding Light”. I had been in Vancouver for only one year and my English was still fuzzy. This is the film I made in that workshop. The experience informed my whole filmmaking career and influenced me for the rest of my life. The transfer to video is from 1999, so the sound crackles a bit.
Read MoreImpermanence
An experimental film by Venus Soberanes. A poetic study of memory, time, death, the present moment and the impermanence of all things.
Read MoreLover
An experimental, material-based film by Venus Soberanes. This film explores the notions of intimacy and sexuality. This film is a personal reaction to the objectification of the female body in mainstream, male-dominated pornography. Filmed by a woman in the intimate environment of the bedroom while in the act of lovemaking with a male lover, the film can’t escape but referencing – and being a homage – to Carolee Schneemann’s “Fuses”.
Read MoreRadio-cerebro
An experimental short film that explores the idea of the human body, creativity and connection with the universe.
Read MoreThe Moon’s Pyramid
An experimental film by Venus Soberanes. The Moon s Pyramid is a poetic, autobiographical piece that narrates the experience of a young woman going back to her home country after being emerged in a different culture for two and a half years.
Read Moreme and my foreskin, or how I finally got to love my own penis
An Experimental film by Venus Soberanes.
Me and my foreskin, or how I finally got to love my own penis is an experimental, self-reflective piece about a young man with phimosis, a condition that prevents him from retracting his foreskin and causes him to embark on a quest to find alternatives to circumcision. The experience ultimately changes his relationship with his own penis and his perception of manhood and sexuality.
as the crow flies
A video installation by Venus Soberanes.
Venus Soberanes’ super 8 video work focuses on the interactions between city-dwelling animals and the people who live alongside them. This video installation seeks to visually explore the aesthetic relationships between the city — a geometrical, inorganic construction; and the animals that accidentally inhabit it — organic, colourful, tragically beautiful and fully alive.
ancestral archetypes
An experimental film by Venus Soberanes.
Ancestral Archetypes is an experimental, autobiographical essay piece that explores the themes of identity, heritage, death, and destiny. A young woman tries to understand where her identity comes from by going through a personal inner — an outer — journey to the roots of her ancestry.