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DESIRES AND RESISTANCE | UNEARTHING TRANS LEGACIES
December 8, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 4:40 pm
Anonymous sexual encounters and flirtations with the camera, dress-up with Flawless Sabrina, and a night at the Stonewall Inn with Marsha P. Johnson: this programme proposes alternative modes of retrieving and disseminating a trans* past through an erotic gaze. Addressing an erasure of trans* legacies, these works place trans* sexual expression and resistances in conversation with a non-linear idea of history that is both real and fabricated, defiantly looking toward a future of pleasure, play, and beauty.
Curated and presented by Finn Paul in partnership with Outfest LGBTQ Film Festival in LA.
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ACCESS
Films in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. The introduction will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Films rely on visual material to convey ideas, so are less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
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Outlaw – Excerpt – first 16 min (16m)
Dir: Alisa Lebow, Year: 1994
Leslie Feinberg, a self-identified “gender outlaw” who has spent much of zir life passing as a man, speaks with passion and intelligence about zir exp…
St Pel (16m)
Dir. Jason Barker, Year: 1998
Interviews with 5 friends and the queer retelling of a story of a medieval saint.
FlyHole (6m)
Dir. Malic Amalya, Year: 2017
FlyHole tells the story of a housefly who transitions into a man in order to cruise gay bars. Text and images are appropriated from the March 1985 issue of the adult, gay digest magazine, Manscape, including illustrations by Mike Kuchar.
She Whose Blood is Clotting My Underwear (3m)
Dir. Vika Kirchenbauer, Year: 2016
Made for the performance project Cool For You, this video follows an artist’s research on thermal vision and the enhanced gazes of modern warfare. She uses these technical means to discuss intimacy and the body.
At Least You Know You Exist (16m)
Dir: Zackary Drucker, Year: 2011
Made in collaboration with New York performer and drag queen Flawless Sabrina, the film At Least You Know You Exist explores the interaction between two artists of different ages.
First Love (5m)
Dir. Alec Butler, Year: 2002
Our trans/2spirit/intersex hero Alick takes a walk in the birch grove with Kay, the high school siren, the girl of their dreams, things get hot and wet, melting hearts and the cold snow of the Canadian landscape.
beside the water, 1999-2003 (12m)
Dir. Finn Paul, Year: 2018
In this provocative video essay, queer artist Finn Paul mixes up sexual discovery, community formation and the isolation of desert landscapes in a collection of erotic snapshots.
Mighty Real (3m)
Dir. Vicente Ugartechea, Year: 2018
A young trans person embodies confidence and power in this cross-generational sexual encounter.
Happy Birthday, Marsha! (14m)
Dir. Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel, Year: 2016
Happy Birthday, Marsha! is a fictional short film that imagines transgender rights pioneers Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera in the hours leading to the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. The film stars Mya Taylor as Marsha P. Johnson.