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Studies that I first saw Adelina Anthony’s Bruising for Besos and Dulce Maria Solis’s CHELA. As a scholar of theater studies, I was immediately enthralled by the emotional and critical force of both stories, but also galvanized by the storytellers, the dual authors and performers of the work. Anthony and Solis
INTRODUCTION: Bruising For Besos. INTRODUCTION: Bruising For Besos. elina AnthonyBruising for Besosis the first solo play from Adelina Anthony’s The Xiqana Xronicles, a cycle of four plays, each dedicated to one of the four directions and created from a Xicana-Indíge. a, feminist, and queer platform. These plays are conceived by the artist ...
- On How She Got Her Start
- On How She Got to La
- On What Bruising For Besos Is Really About
- On Why Using Humor Became Necessary in This Story
- On Making A Deeply Personal But Highly Fictional Film
- On Being A Queer Chicana Artist
- On What She Hopes The Audience Will Take Away from The Film
I started as an actor and I was doing work as an actor and then because of my budding lesbianism… I landed in Nueva York… but that wasn’t a scene for me cuz like I was a Chicana, Tejana. I got a lot of “¿Pero que tu eres, Colombiana?” and they just looked at me like “You’re this foreign it.” I loved that time because I got exposed to Dominicanos, B...
I knew being there that NY was not going to work for me and at the time, I was in my early twenties, I realized how much I had been shaped by Tejas. It’s like expansive cielo. In NY it’s like looking up at Tetris pieces. I was missing my cultura. I can still remember my comadres saying “Ok Adelina, you can’t say y’all here” and I was like “What?“ “...
There’s a long history with it. Precisely because it does come from the semilla of embodied knowing of violence within a household. It’s essentially looking at this young queer chicana protagonist, trying to understand how domestic violence in her household is being replayed in her adult life. Yoli’s addiction is mujeres. And whether queer or not w...
They are like the ying and the yang. As an artist, I’m always trying to bring in both. Humor is absolutely necessary in Bruising for Besos because if not it would be too harsh of a story to take in. Because I come from the world of comedy, I really try to add these moments of respite. These two mujeres ignite in each other unresolved familial histo...
It is deeply personal and highly fictional. One of the things that happens to us as writers of color is that folks always wanna go like, “Oh, that’s autobiographical.” It’s as if we never re-edited, transformed or imagined our work. We’re still working at a political spectrum where the white writer, the one that has been historically given the priv...
As POC and women we are always expected to fall into the passive role and to follow that. It’s like lets get our normative protagonist and let’s go on his journey. And we’re supposed to relate and quite often we do but the inverse isn’t true because historically and politically speaking our stories haven’t been given the space to be out in the worl...
It comes back to it needs to be medicine for us and sometimes the medicine is bitter, sometimes the medicine is candy coated. And it feels good, but if I only have so many days on this planet, if I’m just one artist who’s trying to work in this very specific framework then I want my work to matter. I really want to create films that we’re going to ...
Mar 23, 2018 · Título original: Brusing for besos Largometraje 2016 89 minutos EE.UU Dir. Adelina Anthony Lés VOSC Contacto: aderisaproductions@gmail.com Sinopsis: “Brusing for besos” nos muestra el mundo interior de Yoli, una carismática lesbiana chicana que se rodea de gente de color trans/queer de Los Ángeles. Comparte piso y trabajo con su amiga Rani, su único […]
Jun 28, 2024 · In her debut and independently produced film Bruising for Besos, Xicana queer writer, actor, director, and producer Adelina Anthony plays the role of the protagonist, Yoli Villamontes, who confronts present and past domestic violence as she attempts to “build familia from scratch” with other queer and trans people of color in Los Angeles ...
- Adelina Anthony
- Drama
- 86 minutes
Xicana Indigenous Art Film. 106 mins. Originally written by Adelina Anthony as a solo play in 2003, Bruising for Besos tells the story of Yoli (Adelina Anthony), a Xicana lesbian, and her tumultuous relationship with Daña (Carolyn Zeller), a beautiful Puerto Rican woman. Yoli is part of a community of lesbians in Los Angeles and has a history ...
Bruising for Besos (Adelina Anthony, 2016, USA) Abstract In her debut and independently produced lm Bruising for Besos, Xicana queer writer, actor, director, and producer Adelina Anthony plays the role of the protagonist, Yoli Villamontes, who confronts present and past domestic violence as she attempts to “build familia from scratch”
