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.... Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 queer trans experimental film narrative kinships If failure can be measured in rejection letters, my film Thick Relations is a failure. I am used to being rejected from top-tier mainstream film festivals; it is a familiar routine. I...

... Are You before she crashes into all her friends. I listen for the trans girl, the youngest participant, in Sarah Hennies's 2017 experimental film/musical composition Contralto as she joins an intergenerational chorus of trans feminine voices. And I cannot drown out the sound of Chicken Little's...

... graduate, in academic writing I was always encouraged not to use the I . And in my earlier work in the mid-2000s, when I was still making a transition from academic writing to journalism, I was largely writing about experimental film, and I was doing so in a very impersonal way. A pop-psychological...

... LGBTQIA Center (Vainshtein 2019 ). 7. Based on my research, I would say the top three genres of trans-made films have been short documentary, short experimental film, and pornography; in the last ten years, amateur online videos and fictional web series have also come to the fore. 8...

... from the press—and also from immigration services—which has devastating consequences for some of the bar regulars and leads the splintered community to question and renegotiate its shared identity. The film is stylistically experimental, blending documentary with magical-realist techniques to create...

...Akkadia Ford Abstract The representation of transgender lives on film is of increasing thematic concern within both mainstream and independent cinema. The ways in which filmmakers represent and depict trans* people communicate to audiences certain views about transgender lives and concerns...

... Matsumoto, 1969) showcases an Asian film that explicitly explores genderqueer culture before there was even a conception of queer or trans cinema; the documentary Wariazone (dir. Kiwa and Terje Toomistu, 2011) highlights the history and contemporary activism of warias in Indonesia; and the experimental...

... of transgender and homosexuality alike. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 sexology Magnus Hirschfeld Eugen Steinach intersex sexual inversion Tom Hooper's film The Danish Girl (2015) ends with the death of its heroine, Lili, after complications from an experimental early twentieth...

... the voyeuristic desire of the freak show (Herrn and Brinckmann 2017 : 221). The third and fourth chapters of the film address the plasticity and malleability of sex. Again, starting with animals, the film recreates Steinach's experimental sex reversals, thus allowing the audience to witness the surgical...

... that reject bottomhood as exploitation with the playful and ironic works of experimental queer Asian video artists, including those by the author himself, that try to mine those exploitative images for pleasures and agency. The book is written with nuance and theoretical sophistication, in a clear...

... fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 This deceptively simple question has provoked heated discussion among festival programmers, film critics, and even filmmakers. Is a trans film one...

... of the film The Danish Girl ( 2015 ) gives one pause. It's a sad film, after all—what good could come, then, in offering said reading, a reading to make sadness grow? What purpose could this serve? These questions do give me pause. I notice, however, that they also participate in the very logic resisted...

... Buddhist and Daoist imaginings of gender androgyny; the problem of writing eunuchism and castration into history; transgender representations in literature, art, theater, film, and television; to transgender activism in present-day Hong Kong. The diversity in periods, representational genres, and methods...

... is drawn. In film, dance, and visual and relational performance, the artists contest conventional social constructions of transgender and articulate existential possibility in ways that contribute to and echo the development of new ideas about embodiment. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

... in film/video, performance literature, and digital media, Chen pushes against the seeming absorption of the transgender subject into a new chapter of the US settler colonial narrative. As Chen argues, trans of culture artists, including those working from Black, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous...

... of queerness—queers the national, according to José Quiroga ( 2000 ), and interrogates its boundaries of legitimacy (63): a paradox exposed in Una mujer fantástica ( A Fantastic Woman ), a film that situates transness as a social excess excluded of rights and of reparability by the “progressive” state...

...), the ghosts of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives (2010), and the cannibal ghosts of the experimental short film, Mekong Hotel (2012). However, not only is the indistinction between reality and fantasy eroded through the inclusion of the supernatural and the extraordinary, but Apichatpong's films...

..., proximities from spaces, shades from gradients. Its articulation as such is also distinctly cinematic, recalling the film image as a flickering procession of still frames, which, through the spectator's optical, linguistic, and psychosocial capacities, take on the character of a dynamic whole. The shimmer...

.... Nick Deocampo is an associate professor at the Film Institute College of Mass Communication at the University of the Phillipines Diliman. His breakthrough film, Oliver (1983), is considered a classic in Philippine experimental documentary. His books include SineGabay: A Film Study Guide ( 2008...

... different” (Evangelista 2017 ). In 1998, Gus Van Sant's experimental replica of Hitchcock's Psycho revealed a similar off-ness. The critical responses to the film experiment tended to agree that an unchanged original is more valuable than a replication. This sentiment, an audience affect tied...