Gelli Pascual

A Filipino-American woman tries to find love but instead faces sexualization and fetishization due to the color of her skin.

Joshua Tree Part 2 is a meditative six-minute short film rooted in the wisdom that death teaches us the meanings of love. Centered on two Black queer lovers, it reimagines Black death as a beautiful dark portal, a sacred return shaped by how one has lived. Time moves like memory and spirals as the lovers share their first and last conversation, a single six-minute exchange that feels like a lifetime. Joshua Tree is an elegy, and it is our offering, a remembering of Black death as beautiful and of love as a reverent act.