Baggage (2026): Surrealistic Visual Language and Confront the Past
Baggage’s experimental mixed formats visualized a woman’s brave inner journey of visiting the museum of her fragmented memories.

Compilation of promo videos with 1991 interviews interspersed throughout the program. Originally released on VHS in 1991. Song Listing: "Wonderous Stories", "Don't Kill The Whale", "Turn Of The Century", "Tempus Fugit", "Into The Lens", "Hold On", "Leave It", "It Can Happen" , "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" (two versions), "Rhythm Of Love", "Love Will Find A Way.
Baggage’s experimental mixed formats visualized a woman’s brave inner journey of visiting the museum of her fragmented memories.
This powerful story shines with poetic animation, an exploration of deeper truths, and the protagonist's complex search for identity.
By depicting 4 different stories, Director Sergio Tovar Velarde keeps the focus on the shared humanity and search for love (both self and romantic) of various gay Mexican men.
From its visually stunning opening credits, which show women dancing through a forest to musical rhythms that sound almost primal, to its quiet, heartbreaking final frame, Mona Fastvold’s historical rendering of the Shaker religious movement is an experience that will stay with me for a long time.
Korean culture shines in this Canadian export.
Over the last several years, I have had the privilege of being one of the critics having the opportunity to watch and review several films from writer/director/producer Marcellus Cox, whose efforts are never anything less but grounded, relevant, and steeped in unflinching glimpses illustrating the gripping, inspired, and ever-vacillating realms that make up the human condition.