I Don't Need To Know You explores cruising in Cataluña, Spain. This process of searching for sexual encounters in public places such as parks, beaches has traditionally been viewed in the context of male homo- sexuality. I Don’t Need To Know You ventures further in an attempt to reveal and understand...
My Own Wings
My Own Wings is a transmedia project that aims to explore the intersex identity. Originally the term “hermaphrodite” was used to describe the phenomena, but it has since been substituted with intersex because it was seen as offensive. Intersex people are not born with "both" sexes but born with a...
Public Money
Across New York City, a bold experiment in participatory democracy is underway. Since 2012, the city council has steadily increased investment in a process called “participatory budgeting”, wherein community members gain a role in deciding how to spend part of a public budget. Following the process over one year in...
Sustainable Barbuda
A short documentary on food security in the small island state of Barbuda. co-director/editor/cinematographer
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia
IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu MergiaShort FilmComing 2021 Directed by Lorena Alvarado & Adam GolferEditor: Lorena AlvaradoDP: Adam GolferProducer: Jessica BeshirColor: Cédric von NiederhäusernSound Design: Luciana Foglio Translations: Menbere Awoke, Jessica BeshirMusic by Hailu Mergia: Courtesy of Awesome Tapes from AfricaThank you to Hailu Mergia and the Brooklyn...
Two Sunsets
“Two Sunsets” (2020) is an experimental film essay, framed by 2 photographs of a sunset Golfer discovered in a box of his dad’s belongings, 10 years after his death. The mysterious provenance of the 2 pictures permeates the film in multiple imagined conversations unfurling across time and space: between Golfer’s...
Router
Router2017Router follows two individuals: Chris, a war re-enactor who takes on the role of a Nazi trooper, and Constance, a pianist and performance artist from New York. Both of them inhabit multiple fictional planes, unknowingly drawing comparisons and connections to one another while referencing historical traumas that are never explicitly...
We’ll Do the Rest
"We'll Do the Rest"Adam Golfer2015We’ll Do the Rest concerns the intersecting dream narratives of a female drone pilot, the unsolved murder of Tupac Shakur, and a story of high school gang violence in Louisiana. Nightmare visions are described as two individuals recall and re-inhabit fragmentary and traumatic memories from their...
Doce / I am Twelve Years Old
Melaine es una niña de 12 años que enfrenta la adolescencia mientras ayuda a su madre a cuidar a su hermana. Este retrato explora las dicotomías entre juegos y responsabilidades de esta etapa de iniciación hacia la adultes en la que Melaine se encuentra entre niña y mujer. Melaine is...
La Bonita
Acrylic nails, hot wax, and permanent make up: this construction serves as a coat that mask an unidentified female pain.