(The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives)

Content: 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.

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Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

14 minutes

Year:

2025

Directors:

Brydie O'Connor

Actors:

Self

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Director

Editor

Producer

Editor

Consulting Producer