Cesaire Jose Carroll-Dominguez
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Biography
Trained at the New York City School of the Arts and continuing his work at the San Diego School of the Creative And Performing Arts, Cesaire Jose Carroll-Dominguez is a filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist. His recent projects include the digital art piece Mapping San Diego and the short Regulate TikTok. He has contributed to performances by the art collective *particle group.* His work has appeared with or in Crossed lines and Imagined Theatres (the other balcony per Genet). His photography and film have received several awards, Including IVIE awards in 2021 and 2022. One of his films, Chicano Park: A Cinematic Poem, was an offical selection of the 2022 San Diego Latino Film Festival. Other pieces have been exhibited in musems such as MCASD and MOPA. He currently is a fellow at UCSD through the Jacobs Youth Community Scholars program, a member of the Outside The Lens Youth Council, and a 2022 summer fellow at the Reel Voices program in San Diego, California.
Known For
An unnamed narrator explores the history and beauty of Chicano Park.
Chicano Park; A Cinematic Poem
A collection of vignettes about the struggles and fears of motherhood
Motherly Sexcapades
Luz, a Filipina interpreter, takes a call from Dr. Femi Balogun to discuss the end-of-life options for Remedios, an elderly Filipina woman in the hospital ICU during the early months of the COVID pandemic.
Pandemic Bread
Compulsively embracing his brooding homosexuality, the Smiling Man walks the final circle.
I am Perfectly Normal: Part III
A boy is thrown into the middle of an increasingly bizarre local disturbance.
Barkley Dubis' Danse Macabre
Pseudo-realist improvisational docu-narrative about the day in the life of a group of teenagers.
Fully Loaded Gun: An Exquisite Corpse
The Smiling Man descends into hell, and, trapped in the walls of his own homosexual longing, he must now confront his motherly obsession.
I am Perfectly Normal: Part II
A forgotten faceless celebrity ascends into heaven along the path of self-discovery and through a land of faded memory.
I am Perfectly Normal: Part I
A meditative time capsule of a documentary, exploring the physical and emotional landscape of an often overlooked San Diego neighborhood at a key moment of change.
Logging Linda Vista; An improper fish
In this, queer re-interpretation of Jean Cocteau's timeless classic, an actor has a breakdown, pining for their love, locked in a green room before they are supposed to go onstage.
Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice
Chronicles live and present experiences of students working in the film department at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts.