Logline:

In A Doll’s House, artist Alfonso Muñoz Alma reflects on identity, memory, and imagination. Using dollhouses and recycled objects, his work inserts LGBTQIA+ figures and Puerto Rican women into traditionally masculine spaces, thus reimagining Puerto Rico’s visual culture from a perspective of inclusion and equity.

Synopsis:

“A Doll’s House” is a short documentary filmed in Santurce, Puerto Rico, that highlights the work of multidisciplinary artist Alfonso Muñoz Alma. The documentary focuses on the LGBTQ+ community and women as foundational elements in Alfonso’s life and work.
From an early age, Alfonso found an ally in his mother, creating an environment that encouraged him to question the world around him through his imagination as a queer child. His childhood was marked by the creation of dollhouses and fantastical scenes using objects found in the trash. This ability to reimagine found objects within spaces evolved in adulthood into a reinterpretation of heteronormative visual culture in his art.
His lived experiences as part of the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York also inform his multidisciplinary work. Through his art, Alfonso challenges the narrative of our visual culture by introducing Puerto Rican women and figures from the LGBTQ+ community into the pictorial and narrative spaces of traditional art, which have typically been dominated by men.