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The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives (2025)
Directed by Brydie O'Connor
Documentary · 14m
The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives follows a mobile archiving center in a cargo trailer as it crosses the Midwest to digitize the VHS tapes of LGBTQ+ folks living in Middle America. In real-time digitizing sessions, people watch their own histories as they are being preserved, and reveal a look into queer life in the Bible Belt since the 1980s. This film takes a road trip through the past into the present, and gives us a glimpse of what an ever-expanding queer archive looks like in the future.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Brydie O'Connor
- Director of Photography
- Sarah Simka Jaffe
- Editor
- Brydie O'Connor, Sean Weiner
- Producer
- Brydie O'Connor
Details
- Release date
- 2025-06-24
- Runtime
- 14m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English