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T-Shorts
Interviews with three people who talk about their tomboy roots,
butch and trans identities and the swinging twang of Johnny Cash's
rendition of Ring of Fire.
Production
notes:
Dir Lorna Boschman
Can 1999 14 min
Video
English with no subtitles
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Phallocy
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How does a 32-year-old lesbian become a man?
Phallocy is an autobiographical experimental video. Departing from
the regular 'talking heads'-style documentation of a trans story,
Jay Sennet's Phallocy is a collage of images, music and spoken word.
De video deals with an important experience for many FTM trans: how
to cope with the vulnerability of a transformed body.
Production
notes:
Dir Jay Sennett
USA 2000 4 min
Video
English with no subtitles
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Almost
Human
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T-Shorts
A suburban family goes to the zoo and bumps into the North American
Wild Transsexual (northus americanus wildus transexualis). Their
lives will never be the same again.
One critic wrote: "In just four minutes Virago manages to take
playful shots at a whole host of political issues: mindless American
consumerism, youth smoking, alchoholism, the incarceration of transsexuals,
transphobia and violence, America's obsession with guns, straight
male discomfort with and attraction to transsexual women, open marriages,
and the top/bottom dichotomy."
Production
notes:
Dir Shawna Virago
USA 2001 4 min
Video
English with no subtitles
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XXXY
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T-shorts
XXXY is a moving and thought-provoking portrait of Kirsti and Howard
- two intersex people born with ambiguous genitalia - and their
struggle with the medical establishment and with society's rigid
determination to assign gender as either male or female.
Production
notes:
Dir
Porter Gale/ Laleh Soomekh
USA 2000 13 min
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No
Dumb Questions
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Programme:
T-Shorts
Award winning documentary about three young girls contemplating on
their uncle Bill's new gender identity as Barbara.
Chelsea
(6), Olivia (9) and Abby (11) adore their Uncle Bill, but will they
feel the same when he becomes their new aunt Barbara? Before their
first visit to Barbara, the three little sisters speak openly about
trans issues, their excitement about the change, and whether they
will stop loving Bill/Barbara once they meet her. This is a funny
and touching film about children's ability to deal with gender identity
changes in an open way if space is given to them by adults. There
is apparently no such thing as dumb questions.
Production
notes:
Dir Melissa Regan
USA 2001 25 min
Documentary video
English with no subtitles
Winner
Audience Award for Best Short Film at the San Francisco International
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in 2001.
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