New Zealand bartender

Meet the topless bartender exploring gender and sexuality

Original was uploaded on 2020-06-26

Director Jessica Barclay Lawton follows Zef Valdes, a 21-year-old genderqueer environmental practices student, in an intimate portrait of her life in Cairns, Australia. Lawton’s aim—as she describes—was to show “a slice of Australian culture that doesn’t make it into the brochures.”

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This video follows a New Zealand bartender exploring gender and sexuality. It captures them skateboarding through rainy suburban streets lined with palms and houses. Intimate moments include shirtless embraces in the forest and working topless behind the bar. The piece ends with a serene riverside scene on a boulder amid flowing water and trees.