Bypass

As the body can be modified, the image is altered. When you walk around in the same body for most of your life, a dramatic change can be the cause of commotion for others. As she walks around in this big container, and then walks around in this tiny box, she is unaware of the space that she’s taking or giving up. As the body continues to be modified, she spends time looking at her image trying to recognize this new size, wondering if she ever knew the one before. Bypass is a story about the body, beauty, health, society, and a mother and father who encouraged her daughter to do many things including going through gastric bypass surgery.

October 10, 2019 at 7:30 PM

“What I see I never saw, and what you see I don’t understand, so I keep searching to find me in this container”.

About the artist

Monica Garrido is a Mexican born Artist. Her short films have been part of the Inside Out LGBT Film Festival. Her first solo show created at Emerging Creator Unit at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre The Cunning Linguist won the 2016 Queer Acts Audience Award. She’s part of the ensemble of the Canadian Comedy Award winner show Sketch Comedy Extravaganza Eleganza. Currently she Co-Host and Co-Produce Radio Aluna Theatre Podcast. Monica is the 2018 recipient of the Queer Emerging Artist Award at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. She is also a Taurus and wishes you the best.      

Tricia Hagoriles is a Toronto-based filmmaker. In 2015, Tricia received the RBC Emerging Canadian Artist Award at the Inside Out Toronto LGBTQ Film Festival for her first short film, Beat. She is an alumni of Reel World Film Festival’s 2017 Emerging 20 Mentorship Program, and her most recent short, The Morning After, has screened in festivals around the world. She is currently a resident of the 2019 Director’s Lab at the Canadian Film Centre.                        

Sofia Rodriguez was born and raised in the City of Mountains: Monterrey, Mexico. She is a multidisciplinary actor, creator and collaborator currently based in Toronto. Her recent work includes: Beautiful Man (Factory Theatre), Noor (Aga Khan Museum), Shadow Girls (Pencil Kit Productions), Communist Manifesto For Children (Rhubarb Festival), El Retorno/I Return (Theatre Aquarius, Riser Project), Nasty (Feminist Fuck It, Fringe), PETS (Changeup, Shadowland Theatre), Anato/mía (Rhubarb Festival). She is a founding member of QueerAF Collective, currently in residency with Buddies in Bad Times.       

Lucia Linares is a queer trans non-binary latinx filmmaker, producer, creator and drag performer. As part of the 2018 Inside Out New Visions program, they co-created and produced their first short film (Hi Mrs. Friedman!) and  have worked in different productions, such as The Morning After and Fragile (directed by Tricia Hagoriles). They co-created and perform as one of the members of the Latinx Drag King boyband “Boiband The Boyband”. Currently, they’re majoring in Film and Media Production at Humber College to be able to expand their knowledge and grow as a filmmaker.