Synopsis:

Set sometime in the future-present Homotopia chronicles a
group of radical queer’s dedicated to exposing the trouble
with gay marriage, dismantling the State, undoing Empire,
while looking totally fierce. Woven into the story of
Yoshi's adventures in love, resistance, and sex, is a
critique of the crushing violence of homonormativity and
its deadly perpetuation of US patriotism, conservative
kinship structures and affective accumulation. Homotopia
holds cinematic assumptions hostage through its motley
assemblage of never-passing crew. Race, gender, ability
and desire are reworked through an anti-colonial take of
queer struggle creating a visual rhythm of melancholic
utopianism that knows there may be no future but still
hopes today is not their last. Love revolution, not State
delusion, Homotopia.

Why Homotopia, why now?

Homotopia, total running time 35 min., was shot on Super 8
film and digital video on location in San Francisco, CA.
We found the hyper-polished, easily marketable aesthetic
of much recent cinema to forget the visual importance of
the gritty, shoot-and-run style born both out of a
political commitment and necessity. Homotopia references
radical feminist guerilla cinema of the 1970s. This filmic
referencing is also a way of placing Homotopia in this
visual genealogy of resistance that all too often goes
missing.

Homotopia, out of history:

During the most recent gay marriage hysteria we found the
conversation to be dangerously bifurcated into the pro gay
marriage side, and on the other side, the anti-gay
marriage. For sure most vocal opponents of gay marriage
are homophobic and must be challenged on ever front.
However, there is also a feminist, and radical women of
color critique of the institution of marriage. Not
surprisingly nowhere in these recent debates was a
radically queer analysis of marriage in either its homo or
hetero incarnation. Homotopia is an attempt to open up
these conversations and inject an anti-State and
anti-racist response to the “gay marriage debates”.