EL JAUNTS
@XYZ PROJECTS
Is a queer ethnographer + film artist
who specialises in co-operative filmmaking and community-led
healthcare archiving.
They are founder and co-director of XYZ PROJECTS (CIC); a trans and disabled-led arts collective based between Birmingham and London.
They have an masters in Visual Anthropology (Goldsmiths, 2022-2024) where they wrote ‘Queering the Healthcare Information Film’ : an essay exploring the application of community ehealthcare archiving and co-opertaive filmmaking to the creation of NHS staff training resources’. It focused on methods of queering and decolonising forms of medical knowledge
through community-led healthcare archiving and filmmaking.
DR. XYZ: A MEDICAL
DRAG TRANSTHOLOGY (2024)
is a satirical public information film made with Birmingham’s trans+ community, which functions
as a GP training film on effective and affirming trans healthcare practices.The film was made as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council x British Film Institute’s ‘NHS Untold Stories’ innitiative.
It is now ciruclateing as part of a trans healthcare teaching session led by XYZ’s co-director Dr.Raviv Piccus
throughout several London and West Midlands NHS staff training networks.
Watch here on the BFI Player’s ‘NHS On Film’ collection.
FIGURE 3: workshop facilitated by El and Dr. Raviv Piccus (Vivid Projects, 2023)
FIGURE 4: collaborative scriptwriting workshop for Dr. XYZ (XYZ Projects, 2023)
FIGURE 5: Video synth + petri dish experiment ‘A Kiss is A Collision’ (Goldsmiths, 2022)
FIGURE 6: ‘Thanks for Your Patience!’ live performance installation and healthcare zine launch by XYZ Projects (Vivid Projects, 2024)
FIGURE 7: 16mm stills from ‘Dorothy Towers’ (El Jones, Sean Burns, 2022)
The Ageing Salon
XYZ Projects