Chris Vargas

Movies

Masculinity/Femininity
Self
Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super 8, the project merges academic and creative critique -- a document of gender de-construction rather than a documentary about gender construction.
Criminal Queers
Director
Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation.
Valencia: The Movie/S
Director
Valencia is a collaboration between a national community of queer filmmakers to adapt the underground classic memoir into a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco's Mission District in the early 90s during the rise of a punk lesbian diaspora told through the experiences of Michelle, a single rootless twenty-something searching for sex and love, drugs and adventure.
Work of Art! A Reality TV Special, Falling in Love with Chris and Greg
Director
Falling in Love… is a situation comedy about a gay odd couple, one liberal, one radical; one transgender, one not. They don’t have a whole lot in common, but somehow they manage. In this episode, Chris and Greg compete on a reality television show to be “The Next Great Artist.” The challenge: “Create a successful piece of queer art about failure.” Can they make it through a double elimination?
Homotopia
Director
Homotopia chronicles a group of radical queer’s dedicated to exposing the trouble with gay marriage, dismantling the State, undoing Empire, while looking totally fierce.
Extraordinary Pregnancies
Writer
Extraordinary Pregnancies revisits the "First" Pregnant Man, Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy, rescripting their vulnerable yet guarded interviews with the big shots of tabloid media.
Extraordinary Pregnancies
Director
Extraordinary Pregnancies revisits the "First" Pregnant Man, Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy, rescripting their vulnerable yet guarded interviews with the big shots of tabloid media.