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The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives

Directed by Brydie O’Connor2025USA20 mins

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.

'The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives' is screening in:

Truth Be Told: Documentary Shorts

At a time when so much of our queer culture is under attack, this program celebrates the archives and the memories of our ancestors and paves a path toward our future.

Expected Guests

Brydie O’Connor
Director

This film is a recipient of a Frameline Completion Fund grant.

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Director
Brydie O’Connor
Year
2025
Country
USA
Running Time
20 mins
Language
English
Premiere
World
Cast/Participants
Kendell Harbin, Sue Moreno, David Wayne Reed, Johnda Boyce
Section
Frameline Completion Fund