“Kicked in the Nuts” by Tara Mateik

Tara Mateik is a video and performance artist and teaches in the Media Culture Department at CUNY Staten Island. His work has been exhibited at international venues including MOMA PS1 Greater New York Cinema, Dixon Place, and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Outfest, Los Angeles, CA; Aurora Pictures, Houston, TX; Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany; and The Images Festival, Toronto, Canada. His videos (including Sylvia, 2002, Sylvia Rivera’s memorial video) are distributed by the Video Data Bank.