SYNOPSIS

"A Doll’s House" is a short documentary film shot in Santurce, Puerto Rico, that highlights the work of multidisciplinary artist Alfonso Muñoz Alma. The film focuses on the LGBTQ+ community and women as foundational elements in Alfonso’s life and artistic practice. From an early age, Alfonso found an ally in his mother, creating an environment that encouraged him to question, through his imagination, the world around him as a queer child. His childhood was marked by the creation of dollhouses and fantastic scenes using objects found in the trash. His ability to rethink and reimagine found objects and spaces translates, in adulthood, into a reinterpretation of heteronormative visual culture in his art. The experiences of living as part of the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York also inform his multidisciplinary work. Through his art, Alfonso challenges the narratives of Puerto Rican visual culture by introducing women and figures from the LGBTQ+ community into the pictorial and narrative spaces of traditional art—spaces that have been historically dominated by men.

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS & AWARDS

• WINNER, BEST SHORT FILM BY JURY PUERTO RICO QUEER FILM FEST, 2025

• HONORABLE MENTION & OFFICIAL SELECTION REALE FILM FESTIVAL, 2026

• OFFICIAL SELECTION, QUEER FILM FEST 2025

• OFFICIAL SELECTION, FUERZA FEST NY, 2025

• OFFICIAL SELECTION, INTERNATIONAL PUERTO RICAN HERITAGE FILM FESTIVAL

• OFFICIAL SELECTION, LUSCA FANTASTIC FILM FEST

• OFFICIAL SELECTION & SPECIAL PRESENTATION, ISABELA FILM FESTIVAL, 2025

• OFFICIAL SELECTION, PANORAMA FILM FESTIVAL, 2026

• SCREENING MAC, MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO PUERTO RICO, 2025

SYNOPSIS

This short film reflects on the entanglement of architectural space, gendered violence, and digital memory. Rooted in architectural research methods such as ficto-criticism and site-writing, it is narrated from the imagined voice of a Google Maps Geopoint, marked as a “sculpture”, and witness to the unresolved story of Neulisa “Alexa” Luciano, a Black trans woman murdered in Puerto Rico in 2020.

Through a delicate interplay of spatial analysis and poetic testimony, the film retraces three spaces tied to Alexa’s final hours: a McDonald’s restroom, a viral post on Facebook, and a tent by the road. Each, in its own way, becomes a femisite—a site where gendered violence and inequality converge.

The film draws on original in-situ video, screen recordings, and 3D Sketchup modeling of spaces that could not be filmed, constructing a queered architectural language. It interrogates how environments designed under standardized codes of safety and order can become stages of exposure, harm, and complicity against marginalized communities: LGBTQ people, Black individuals, the homeless, and the mentally ill.

“Once Upon Three Femisites” offers a spatialized act of remembrance, where absence is mapped, and testimony arises from materials, coordinates, and code. Commissioned as part of the Puerto Rico Pavilion at the 24th Triennale Milano International Exhibition under the theme “Inequalities,” the film invites viewers to consider how both physical and digital architectures participate in the dehumanization—and remembrance—of marginalized lives.

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS & AWARDS

• PART OF THE PUERTO RICO PAVILION AT THE 24TH TRIENNALE MILANO INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

• SCREENING, UTOPIAN HOURS - FESTIVAL OF CITY MAKING. ROTTERDAM, NE. MAY 29, 2026.

• OFFICIAL SELECTION, PUERTO RICO QUEER FILM FEST, 2026

• OFFICIAL SELECTION, 44TH REELING: THE CHICAGO LGBTQ+ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

SYNOPSIS

This short film explores our multisensory connection to the Puerto Rican landscape—a natural heritage that shapes the very essence of our identity. Our landscape is our most valuable collective patrimony, yet it faces deliberate and designed privatization and destruction for private exploitation, turning even basic access to our landscape into a privilege for some. By capturing the immersive experience of our natural environment, this film serves as an urgent defense of our natural patrimony and a testament to the critical need to protect, reclaim, and preserve it.

Este cortometraje explora nuestra conexión multisensorial con el paisaje puertorriqueño: una herencia natural que moldea la esencia misma de nuestra identidad. Nuestro paisaje es nuestro patrimonio colectivo más valioso; sin embargo, enfrenta una privatización y destrucción deliberada y planificada para la explotación privada, convirtiendo incluso el acceso básico a nuestro entorno natural en un privilegio para unos pocos.

Al capturar la experiencia inmersiva de nuestro entorno natural, este filme sirve como una defensa urgente de nuestro patrimonio y un testimonio de la necesidad crítica de protegerlo, reclamarlo y preservarlo.

OFFICIAL SELECTIONS & AWARDS

• INTERNATIONAL PUERTO RICAN HERITAGE FILM FESTIVAL (IPRHFF)

• FILMMAKER SESSIONS (VOLUME 9)

• FILMMAKER SESSIONS (VOLUME 6)