Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt • 2020 • Canada
Starring Billy Tipton, Susan Stryker, Kate Bornstein
American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-twentieth century, along with his band the Billy Tipton Trio. After his death in the late 1980s, it was revealed that Tipton had been assigned female at birth, and his life was swiftly reframed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. The genre-defying documentary NO ORDINARY MAN seeks to correct that misrepresentation by collaborating with trans artists. As they collectively celebrate Tipton’s story as a musician living his life on his own terms, they paint a vivid portrait of a trans culture hero. NO ORDINARY MAN features leading voices and breakout stars in the trans community, including Marquise Vilsón, Scott Turner Schofield, Susan Stryker, C. Riley Snorton, and Thomas Page McBee.
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Dog Movie
Directed by Henry Hanson • 2023 • United States
Starring Jessi Gaston, Marten Katze, Milo TalwaniA passive-aggressive tenderqueer couple (Marten Katze and Jessi Gaston) send their household into a quiet tailspin when they adopt an elderly dog who shares the same name as the unemployed couch sur...
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Maggots and Men
Directed by Cary Cronenwett • 2009 • United States
Starring Stormy Henry Knight, Travis Clough, Scout FestaThis 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 cas...
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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...
