BORN WITH AN
EXTRA RIB: THE FILM
stefa marin alacon
the kitchen
a transdisciplinary opera featuring
multimedia artist and composer stefa marin alarcon. Descended from the Emberá-Chamí people, stefa is a Colombian-American musician, born and raised in Queens, New York. Emerging from the questions behind their upcoming record Born With An Extra Rib, this experimental operatic film creates a structure for stefa to reclaim and return to their body.
Through live performance,
STEFA* continued to explore their relationships to Mother/Earth as a queer trans being. In living, fighting, and surviving the fascist, yt-cis-heteropatriarchical neo-colonial powers, STEFA* reveal the beauty and contradictions that emerge in the face of destruction and pain. With lush harmonics, spiraling loops, ancient ululations, somatic jazz, and rage-pop, they channel their ancestors and guides in their complex compositions towards revolution.
Premiering July 2021
via the Kitchen OnScreen.
credits
created, composed, co-direction, co-produced by stefa marin alarcon
co-direction, co-creative produced by LILLETH
film direction and videography by Nova Scott James and Flor Tejada
styled by by Joseph Charles Viola
sound engineered by Lily Wen
BTS photography by Maria Baranova
lighting and projection design by Kelley Shih
cast
STEFA* (vocals), GypjaQ Kai (vocals), Starr Busby (vocals), Miles Francis (percussion), Nicolas Jozwiak (bass), José Benjamin Escobar (keys, percussion)
