Wes Weisbaum is a Los Angeles based 818 filmmaker and poet; their work touches on the intersections of their identity as a transmasc Salvadoran-American in the San Fernando Valley. Wes holds a B.A in Art from the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, of the University of California Irvine and an MFA in photography and Media from the California Institute of the Arts. Their work has been supported by The Alpay Scholarship from the Palos Verde Art Center, The Dee Williams Memorial Grant and The Allan Sekula Social Documentary Fund.
Rendering home-movie Hi-8 to a contemporary cinematic state. The process is the statement, with collaborative hands from poem, band, to birth of what word and sound visually demand.
Their films have screened at ArtShare L.A, California State University Long Beach School Of Art, Northwest Film Forum, Western Michigan University, Yiwei Gallery, and more recently at Irrational Exhibits #12: Body, Materiality and Systems at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, L.A.