Brincando el Charco Portrait of a Puerto Rican (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 middleclass lightskinned 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