The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives (2025)
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.
Director: Brydie O'Connor
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Kendell Harbin as Self |
| Directing | Brydie O'Connor | Director |
| Editing | Brydie O'Connor | Editor |
| Production | Brydie O'Connor | Producer |
| Editing | Sean Weiner | Editor |
| Production | Sean Weiner | Consulting Producer |
| Production | Kendell Harbin | Consulting Producer |
| Production | Martha Gregory | Consulting Producer |
| Camera | Sarah Simka Jaffe | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Taul Katz | Music |
| Production | Arno Mokros | Consulting Producer |
