REGNER RAMOS | Message (Acts 1, 2 & 3)

Message (Acts 1, 2 & 3) is composed of three fragments/acts that contest and inform each other. “Message” touches issues of gender and space in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, using “El Mensaje de Arecibo”-a binary-coded message sent to a distant galaxy from the world’s then-largest radio telescope facility. The film proposes a critique of patriarchal ideals of gender identity and sexuality. Taking the viewer through the scales of the planetary, the regional, the building, and a non-binary body, the film recounts each fragment/act through three different modes of narrative: scientific publishing, fictional story-telling, and interview conversation.
Regner Ramos holds a PhD in Architecture from The Bartlett School of Architecture. He is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture, Editor-in-Chief of informa Journal, and Co-director of Wet-Hard Agency. Ramos is coeditor of Queer Sites in Global Context: Technologies, Spaces, and Otherness (Routledge, 2021); his project “Cüirtopia” is funded by the FIPI Grant (2020-2022); and his project “Coloso” is funded be Graham Foundation (2021-2023). Ramos’s research on the relationship between queerness and space is informed by the fragment as a research method, shifting between model-making, drawing, film, and performative writing.