COURSE BLOG for GWSS 3307: Feminist Film/Media Studies (Fall 2007)

1. Catrina Chaos (born Catrina Roallos) was born in Manila, Philippines. As a child she grew up the San Francisco Bay Area. She considers herself a social activist and a punk rock, hip-hop street artist. Her mediums include video, 35mm film, mixed media and digital art. She is quoted saying that she enjoys puzzles and questions.
2. In 2003 Catrina received a Queer Asian & Pacific Islander Pride Scholarship. In 2004, her short video, Every Surface, was shown at the National Queer Arts Festival. Every Surface is an exploration of the graffiti art that surrounds us everyday on “every surface” and that slips by us on our car rides to nowhere.
3. I am fascinated with graffiti art and any social art form that seeks to “take back” and transform public spaces. Here is a link to some of her work I found.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQbnKKE66e8
4. I remembered seeing on YouTube a short shadow puppetry video by Chaos sometime back and I wanted to find out who she was. When I searched her name I found many references to her in links to the “Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.” She has participated in the National Queer Arts Festival where her film was shown at a Queer Women of Color Film night.
5. Other than these references to her work regarding the Queer Women of Color Media Arts project, I had difficulty in finding any article or web page that did more than scratch the surface or just name drop about Chaos.