Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican

Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican

57 mins | Drama | Jan. 2, 1994

Contemplates the notion of "identity" through the experiences of a Puerto Rican woman living in the US. In a wonderful mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and soap opera drama, the film tells the story of Claudia Marin, a middle-class, light-skinned, lesbian Puerto Rican photographer / videographer who is attempting to construct a sense of community in the US. Confronting the simultaneity of both her privilege and her oppression, this experimental narrative becomes a meditation on class, race, and sexuality as shifting differences.

Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican

57 mins | Drama | Jan. 2, 1994

Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican
Contemplates the notion of "identity" through the experiences of a Puerto Rican woman living in the US. In a wonderful mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and soap opera drama, the film tells the story of Claudia Marin, a middle-class, light-skinned, lesbian Puerto Rican photographer / videographer who is attempting to construct a sense of community in the US. Confronting the simultaneity of both her privilege and her oppression, this experimental narrative becomes a meditation on class, race, and sexuality as shifting differences.
Producers Hipsic Productions
Original title Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican
Directors Frances Negrón Muntaner
Writers Frances Negrón Muntaner