Bio
Carlo Rodriguez is a 18 year old, gay, hispanic, male raised in San Antonio since birth and a three year Media Arts student at SAY Sí. During his years at SAY Si he has been an advocate for change, whether it was against racial and economic injustice or using his voice to support the LGBTQ+ movement. After the production of his short narrative film “Ty”, he gained a huge interest in combining both film and philosophy as an outlet for change in his community. He will be attending the University of Texas at San Antonio in order to pursue film while learning more about philosophical ideals that can be combined into his future work. He has now set his life goal to create films that will not only challenge how his viewers think but how they perceive life as whole. He also aspires to be the youngest winning Oscar director in history.
Artist Statement
In your life span, you meet about 80,000 people in the world which is about .00001% of the entire world's population which is an estimated amount of 8 billion people. I want this piece to highlight the beauty of how human connection correlates with human experience. The reason I choose human experience and human connection is because if we can understand how we connect with people, then it would be easier for people to unify with each other more. These stories are all fragments of my own memories, but told through different lives, because at some point someone has experienced something similar to what I have. All these fragments of my memories are different people, whose lives do not correlate. They have their own problems, and their own lives. However, when these fragments come together, human connection, and they share their own personal history, human experience, they become one unified being.