T.J. Blanco is a white Latine, non-binary filmmaker born in Honduras, but raised and based in the Midwest of the U.S. Their work explores ancestral memory, mythological and folkloric origins, as well as the absurdity of life under Neo-Liberalist Late Stage Capitalism through a collage-style, essayistic format. Their practice has evolved from multiple places; Their notes to their dead papí as a child; The angst of their high school feminist bedroom; Their time spent as a farm worker. They oppose easy categorization as a colonialist method to map all things within borders instead of boundaries. Their work seeks to break apart the categorical in whatever form they can find it, in the hopes of building towards that other world that is not only possible, but has always been here.
Filmography
Director (6 Credits)
Desktop Therapy2023
Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
Dreams Under Pressure2023
Experimental, Short, Student
Notes from Limbo2023
Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
The Swell2023
Short
Seen//Unseen2022
Documentary, Experimental, Student
Some Tropics of Cancer 2022
Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
Writer (4 Credits)
Dreams Under Pressure2023
Experimental, Short, Student
The Swell2023
Short
Things Unsaid, Moments Unmade2023
Experimental, Short, Student
Some Tropics of Cancer 2022
Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media
5 Awards & Selections
T.J. Blanco: Inventory of an Incomplete Self Things Unsaid, Moments Unmade