Griselda
2022 · 22m
Directed by Denisse Griselda Reyes
Genres: documentary, experimental, satire
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, theatrical
A queer Latine performance artist named Griselda is interviewed by a 'woke' magazine editor intent on defining her art and identity — and deflects every question with weaponized non-answers while staging confrontational performances across New York City. A subversive mockumentary that interrogates the interrogator.
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The documentary subject refuses to become the documentary — and the film turns that refusal into its whole structure. This is the mockumentary eating itself.
Denisse Griselda Reyes's queer-Latine-artist-mockumentary takes on woke-magazine framing — the subversion-from-inside angle is sharper than most identity satires aim for, and that's worth respect.
The subject of the documentary actively refuses to be documented — a queer Latine performance artist deflecting a 'woke' editor with weaponized non-answers while staging confrontational performances across NYC. That's a mockumentary that knows exactly what it's interrogating.