""Along with friend & collaborator Rebecca Zweig, the filmmaking pair travel back to rural Penjamillo in central Michoacán, Mexico, the town where Mojica first grew up. It's there, as a kid, where they had their first experiences with the traditional rodeo festival known as the "jaripeo," though they didn't always get the appeal. "I grew up going to these rodeos,""
""My very first memories are my parents sending me and my cousins ahead of time to save them seats. So, as a six-year-old, little twink-y kid, I was like, 'I'm bored!' By the time my parents got there, I wanted to leave because it had been like two hours of just sitting in the sun, not being interested in cowboys or bull-riding or anything like that.'""
Efraín Mojica (they/them) stars in and co-directs the documentary Jaripeo, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Mojica and Rebecca Zweig return to rural Penjamillo in central Michoacán, Mexico, where Mojica first grew up and first experienced the traditional rodeo festival known as the jaripeo. Childhood memories of boredom at rodeos shift into teenage nights of partying, liquid courage, and emerging attraction to men. Mojica describes an early sense of guilt when realizing that attraction, followed by adrenaline. Mexican vaquero and ranchero imagery functions as a hypermasculine costume and mask that can be adopted and subverted.
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