La utopia de la mariposa / TIERRA - 2026 PuSH Festival
La utopia de la mariposa / TIERRA
Lukas Avendaño (Mexico)
Queerness // Land // Resistance
Two visionary films featuring Lukas Avendaño—an internationally acclaimed performance artist and leading voice of the Muxe community in Oaxaca’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec—trace the intersections of body, land, and resistance within contemporary Mexico.
Together, these films chart an extraordinary continuum between mourning and rebirth, offering a cinematic language where disappearance meets emergence—and where queerness, land, and rage converge as acts of living revolution.
La Utopía De La Mariposa
Director: José Miguel Jaime Crespo // Year: 2019 // Length: 30min
In La utopía de la mariposa, Avendaño confronts the disappearance of his brother Bruno, transforming personal grief into political testimony. Through the lens of performance and digital theatre, he searches for justice in a nation numbed by systemic violence, where the act of remembrance becomes its own form of survival.
TIERRA
Director: Fana Adjani // Year: 2021 // Length: 15min
Tierra, an experimental art film directed by Fana Adjani, reimagines Avendaño as a nahual, a being born from Mother Earth, moving through forests, fire, and transformation. Here, muxheidad becomes a cosmology of resistance: a fusion of ecofeminist struggle, ancestral embodiment, and the defence of territory.
These films are part of Encuentro: programming at the 2026 Festival centering Latin American artistic impression. Visit the Encuentro page for related performances, workshops, artist talks, and more.
Mon, Feb 26:30PM • Tue, Feb 36:30PM | Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Online Feb 2–8
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For the queer and 2SLGBTQiA+ communities, PuSh remains a space where bodies, identities, and histories can show up without translation. This year’s programming reaches across continents and lineages, pulling in stories shaped by Black femininity, muxheidad, drag, ecofeminism, Andean memory, and a punk-spirited desire to laugh through the chaos. Each piece invites audiences to sit with complexity, question what performance can hold, and enjoy the surprise of artists who follow their own logic.