VCR’s Choice

VCR’S CHOICE combines digital, post-internet video aesthetics with their analog predecessor, the VCR, and playfully investigates (sub)histories of media and technology through the lens of queerness and underground culture. The mind can be a source of entertainment during periods of isolation with a wide variety of TV channels to choose from the past, present, and future. In VCR’S CHOICE devices from the last century are used to act as gates or levels of the imagination. The machines are unlocked through a series of energy exchanges which triggers emotional-like channel changes. The mind device must guide sexual impulse and practice self-care in order to free itself from old thought processes and enter into new realms.

Charlton Diaz lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Their interest in film and visual art began through making comparisons with dance choreography and film editing. They also acted in home videos and skateboarding videos made by their brothers at a young age. They self-trained through observing music videos and then performing at school and local talent shows. This led to professional work in live performance, music videos, and art film. Diaz’s goal in creating art is to honor and celebrate the inner world and also to find new ways to translate and share imagination and emotion in hopes of allowing others to look inside and see value in their own world.

Production Charlton Diaz. Production company Charlton Diaz (Edmonton, Canada). Written and directed by Charlton Diaz. Cinematography Charlton Diaz. Editing Charlton Diaz. Sound design Charlton Diaz. Sound Charlton Diaz. Animation Charlton Diaz. Production design Charlton Diaz. Costumes Charlton Diaz. Make-up Charlton Diaz. With Charlton Diaz (Charmony). 

In collaboration with the Embassy of Canada

Films

2020: Charmony’s Dream Network (4 min.). 2021: Am I Home (21 min.), Farrago – Paradis Artificiel (4 min.), VCR’s Choice.