Postcard eXotica is a 30min cinematic re-enactment in HD Video of a collection of found vintage American postcards produced circa 1900-1930s that depict Mexican stereotypes.

The work seeks to think through the Western gaze by approaching the pictures as movie scenes and revealing the condition of their making –particularly the way they are scripted, staged, lit and filmed. In a broader manner, the video pastiches early cinema, contemporary pop and horror to trace the ways in which these ideas manifest today. Indeed, Postcard eXotica suggests that many of these images were  constructed to elicit a calculated response from the viewer, belonging to a larger tradition of Othering in picture making.