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T-SHORTS #2
All films on video, in English without subtitles
A follow-up to the audience favourite of 2001, this collection of video shorts offer a wide range of styles and content, from comical to introspective, from shock to intellectual meditations, all exploring the edges of gender representations and inner questions related to the trans experience.
LULLABY (4’, 2001, Canada) Mirha-Soleil Ross
This experimental film sings to the experience of being a barren or wombless woman in a culture that assigns to child-bearing women particular qualities and specific status within the cosmological order.
JUNK BOX WARRIORS (4’, 2002, USA) Preeti AK Mistry
Based on his poem with the same title, slam poet Marcus Rene Van performs the changing sensibilities of a black transman from first being a black woman to a ‘potential’ criminal in the eyes of others.
PHINEAS SLIPPED (15’, 2002, USA) KerieOakie
A boy’s school class and their teacher discuss romance in literature. Each boy has his own interpretation on this. The film is one of the first genderqueer version of schoolboy phantasies, played by genny boys, trans boys and butches.
UNHUNG HEROES (15’, 2002, USA) Ilya Pearlman
What do you do if you need loads of money for a penis transplant? Reservoir Dogs meets Busby Berkely in a funny short about five FTM’s dreaming about life with dicks.
TREMBLEMANT DE CHAIR (4’, 2001, Canada) Mirha-Soleil Ross
A beautiful, tender and abstract exploration of a transsexual woman’s body.
THE STROKE (7’, 2002, USA) Austin Young and Bret Pett
A drag queen parody on American hard rock music videos.
ALLO PERFORMANCE (13’, 2002, Canada) Mirha-Soleil Ross
As part of the nine-month Pregnancy Project (2001-2002) of performer Mirha-Soleil Ross, the video explores transsexual women’s relationship to the personal and institutional aspects of motherhood. Included are personal accounts of Ross’ mother on her own pregnancy and birth of the performer.
TRANSANIMALS (16’, 2001, USA) Amy Hill, Rachel Antell, Rebecca Weiner
A mockumentary about people living with pets that would rather have been another animal. Pets owners talk about their pets’ transitions and their consequence for the owners’ own feeling of identity.
HOW TO BECOME A TRANSGENDER THEORIST (9’, 2003, Canada) Viviane Namaste
An instructing video for people who want to make a career in transgender theories.
HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN? (7’, 2001, VS) Tobaron Waxman
In this originally video installation, Waxman explores the experiences of time differences between two female-to-male transmen in their daddy/boy relationship, in terms of their different states of physical maturity and masculine embodiment. The question how long has it been also unfolds time for a submissive, for whom time revolves around his master.
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