Jesús Antonio Rivera

This is the story of a dysfunctional family in which each member engages in an illicit activity, but they don't know this about each other. One day, the Contreras family witnesses a police operation outside the building in which they live and, believing that they are coming for them, each member decides to hide incriminating objects in their room.

Is parties can be spirituality?

The featured archived footage exhibited here was filmed between 1990 and 1999. Between my ages of 13 and 22. I wanted to re-appropriate this footage from my adolescence to study the sometimes reckless, chaotic, transgressive natures of youth. This fragile time carves individual pathways for thought progression in some individuals and/or contrasting behavioral patterns in future adulthoods in others. I am finally digitizing the nearly 120 hours of personal VHS footage I have acquired since I was 10 years old.

PERFORMANCE ART Directed & Performed by Jesus Rivera & Jonnie Prey Filmed at Coaxial Arts / Los Angeles, CA 2016

A short procedural mediation of a psycho-killer who transcends the mundane landscapes of the subconscious and leaps terrifyingly into the dark alleys of the waking mind.

A mixed media video collage story, loosely based on a series of autobiographical summer camp events.

A 3-act collage / short film that explores abandonment, mental waves and dark family myths. Exhibited at the 'Infinity Stage: Smashism' Group show at Coaxial Arts in Los Angeles, made possible in part by the Mike Kelley Foundation of the Arts grant.

The story of the Fook Fook Boys

A Thing By Rivera, Easter & Prey