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Jaripeo

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Mexico/United States/France202670 minSpanish, English
Jaripeo

A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.

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A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.

I brought you here to Penjamillo so you could see a little bit of what it’s like to be a young queer ranchero, explains Efraín Mojica, who makes their feature directorial debut with Jaripeo, alongside Rebecca Zweig. Mojica serves as our guide into the vibrant world of the “jaripeos,” rural rodeos that draw macho cowboys, drunken revelers, and enabled by the bacchanalian atmosphere hidden queer encounters. Through vérité and Super 8 footage, the camera captures secret glances and fleeting touches and lingers lovingly on the riders bodies — manifestations of machismo as filtered through a queer lens. Mojica and Zweig construct rich portraits of queer rancheros sharing memories and confidences in warm, sometimes flirty, conversations and bring their past experiences to life in indelible, stylized dreamscapes celebrating queer self-expression, desire, and belonging. Jaripeo invites viewers to enter this space of traditional, performative masculinity and discover what lies beneath its surface. — BT

This film contains strobe effects.

Available in person. Also available online for the public (January 29–February 1) and credentialed press and industry (January 28–February 1). 


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Screenings

in persononline
  • Jan 25, 3:00 PM MST
    Premiere

    The Yarrow Theatre

    Park City

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  • Jan 26, 11:00 AM MST
    Screening

    Megaplex Redstone - 4

    Park City

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  • Jan 27, 6:30 PM MST
    Screening

    Broadway Centre Cinemas - 6

    Salt Lake City

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  • Jan 30, 1:00 PM MST
    Screening

    Holiday Village Cinemas - 2

    Park City

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  • Feb 1, 10:00 AM MST
    Screening

    Holiday Village Cinemas - 2

    Park City

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    English SDH SubtitlesEnglish SDH Subtitles

  • Jan 29, 3:00 PM GMT -
    Feb 2, 6:55 AM GMT
    Online Screening

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Credits

  • Director(s)

    Efraín Mojica

    Rebecca Zweig

  • Producer

    Sarah Strunin

  • Supervising Producer

    Jun Stinson Yamagishi

  • Co-Producers

    Carine Chichkowsky

    Gerardo Guerra

    Juan Pablo González

  • Executive Producers

    Carrie Lozano

    Lizzie Gillett

    Ian Bonhôte

  • Field Producer

    Natanael Guzman

  • Editor

    Analía Goethals

  • Cinematographer

    Josué Eber Morales

    Gerardo Guerra

  • Composer

    Emilia Ezeta

    Marton Radics

  • Sound Design

    Maria Rojas

  • Post-Supervisor

    Karla Diaz

  • Company

    JCPR&C

  • Contact

    Jessie Cohen

    jessie@jcpr-c.com

Meet the Artist

Panelist Name

Efraín Mojica

    Efraín Mojica is a Michoacán-born artist based in Mexico City. Their multidisciplinary work, shown from Berlin to Mexico City, explores light, sound, and matter through a conceptual art lens. Video art is central to their practice. Jaripeo is their first feature film.

    Panelist Name

    Rebecca Zweig

    • Instagram

    Rebecca Zweig is a Mexico City–based filmmaker and writer. Published in The New York Times and The Nation, she is a Sundance Institute fellow and (Egg)celerator Lab grantee. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her filmmaking is shaped by her poetic practice. Jaripeo is her first feature film.

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