Directed by Cary Cronenwett • 2009 • United States
Starring Stormy Henry Knight, Travis Clough, Scout Festa
This experimental historical narrative set in a mythologized version of revolutionary Russia reimagines the story of the 1921 uprising of the Kronstadt sailors and features the largest cast of trans actors in film history. A masterful homage to Sergei Eisenstein’s BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, MAGGOTS AND MEN also deploys stylistic innovations reminiscent of Guy Maddin and Kenneth Anger. Agitprop theater group Blue Blouse guides the viewer through the story, which is narrated by fictionalized letters written by Stepan Petrichenko, the leader of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee.
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So Pretty
Directed by Jessica Dunn Rovinelli • 2019 • United States, France
Starring Edem Dela-Seshie, Thomas Love, Rachika SThis radical act of meta-adaptation transposes an unfinished novel by gay German writer Ronald M. Schernikau from 1980s West Berlin to 2018 Brooklyn. Centered on the intertwining l...
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Gender Troublemakers
Directed by Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa Mackay • 1993 • Canada
Starring Mirha-Soleil Ross, Xanthra Phillippa MackayWhat happens when two Transdykes get sick of non-transsexuals’ uninformed representation of their sexualities and their lives? They grab their 8 mm home-video camera, t...
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Rupert Remembers
Directed by Xanthra Phillippa Mackay • 2000 • Canada
Trans elder Rupert Raj reflects on his personal memories of trans spaces and activism in the Toronto of the 1970s and ’80s.
