Josh Byron: Meditation on Queer Theory
Josh Byron, a 22 year old filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NYC, creates familiar, deceptively simple short films that are catalysts for conversation. Picking up from different mediums and ways of making, Josh creates a language that is uniquely their own. Their friends call them the "trans-Carrie Bradshaw" as their videos, vlogs, comics, and writings resemble the attitudes and obstacles of Sex and the City Carrie, but there is a personality - a whimsical, yet sincere charm. Since we are used to being exposed to spectacle in everyday life, the idea of a video, a vlog, a picture being truth is looked at as a concept of something that is true until proven untrue. Josh is an artist that deliberately plays with the qualities of truth in video to start a dialogue about queer theory and being non-binary in the contemporary (really contemporary) world. As they casually introduce fictional concepts and dreamlike realities into their films, they create an environment and st