Benja Thompson

A practicing queer archivist, Benja Thompson interweaves historical truths with radical imagination. With a background in filmmaking and audiovisual production, they bring a creative pragmatism to each project. Their filmwork has screened in San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, and New York, and they’ve trained in analog film preservation at Canyon Cinema and Other Cinema. With the Mill Valley Public Library, they established Marin County’s first queer archive, consisting of ephemera, photographs, digitized video, and oral histories. Initially introduced to LEIMAY as the 2024 Dance/USA Archive Fellow, they will be supporting the technical production of A Meal and continue growing the LEIMAY archive project