Asa Mendelsohn

Asa Mendelsohn is an artist and writer who has recently embraced a lifelong phobia of cameras. Informed by queer and feminist documentary practices, collaborations with singers, dancers, and storytellers, and by transfeminist theory and organizing, Asa approaches art-work as a series of opportunities for personal and collective change. 

Chests is a series of short video poems remembering an encounter with a skinhead at a bar in Queens, imagining different outcomes. 

Pasture is a feature-length film that moves between quiet places in Southern California, where in the mid-2000s a grassroots movement resisted private military development, and New York City, where the filmmaker is coming from. In pursuit of an unlikely coalition and friendship, Pasture reflects on relationships between passing and fantasy.