Alexis Dos Santos

Creator Context

Summary

Argentine filmmaker, writer, producer and editor associated with the New Queer Cinema movement. His debut feature, Glue, centers on teenage friendship, bisexual or sexually fluid exploration, drug use and resistance to conventional family and social expectations; it received awards and prominent exposure at LGBT film festivals, including Frameline and the Turin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Dos Santos has described the film as being about adolescents discovering desire, while his subsequent feature Unmade Beds followed young adults navigating sexuality, migration, intimacy and unconventional communal life in London. His work is more character-driven and exploratory than explicitly activist, and there is little evidence of partisan campaigning or a broad public political persona. Nevertheless, queer desire, sexual experimentation and nonconforming youth culture are central recurring elements of his best-known creative identity, making representation and queer experience a substantial part of his public reputation.