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The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives (2025)

Brydie O'Connor · USA · Documentary · 14 min · ♥︎ 247

Directed by Brydie O'Connor · Starring Johnda Boyce, Kendell Harbin, Sue Moreno, David Wayne Reed · 2025

A mobile archiving center in a cargo trailer crosses the Midwest digitizing the VHS tapes of LGBTQ+ people, who watch their own histories as they are preserved.

Queer Midwesterners rediscover their own lives on tape in this tender road-trip documentary about preserving overlooked history.

A short documentary that follows a mobile archiving center in a cargo trailer as it crosses the Midwest to digitize the VHS tapes of LGBTQ+ folks living in Middle America. In real time digitizing sessions, contributors w

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