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Transtastic!

What do a knitting Godzilla stop-motion, digging a massive hole in the middle of a theater, navigating a student visa during COVID, and an open relationship all have in common? They’re all TRANSTASTIC!

Short films showing in this program:

4 Fruit Bites

8 mins

An introduction to four unique queer, trans, and genderqueer voices as featured in the Fruitbowl Podcast.

Coming Out

2 mins

This stop-motion animation reminds us that it is everyone’s job, even Godzilla, to protect trans kids.

F1-100

13 mins

Art, animation, archival footage, and digital video are interwoven in this transnational meditation through time and space of an international art student carrying a heavy burden.

Honor Black Trans Womxn!

6 mins

This is a call to center, protect, love, and celebrate Black Trans Womxn. What would it look like if Black Trans Womxn were allowed to thrive?

Joychild

6 mins

A young child tells their mother “I’m not a girl” for the first time.

Kind Of

9 mins

With only a few minutes before their friends arrive for brunch, two transmasculine folks in a newly open relationship take a deep dive into their feelings.

The Rogers

16 mins

An intimate glimpse of the first visible group of transgender men in the Pacific Islands: the Rogers of Samoa. From the loneliness of family rejection and homelessness to the camaraderie of church, cooking, and dance, their stories reveal the challenges and possibilities of life in an island society rooted in culture and tradition.

Shedding Skin

17 mins

After an accidental first meeting, unlikely friends Alicia and Lucia form a unique bond, allowing them both to begin to accept and celebrate their different bodies.

To the Future, With Love

6 mins

An animated self-portrait of 19-year-old Hunter “Pixel” Jimenez, a nonbinary trans boy caught between the expectations of his Guatemalan immigrant family and his dreams of living happily ever after with his long-distance boyfriend Damienne.

Walking Progress

4 mins

Mixing pre-op and post-op footage of the same dance, this music video highlights the joy of reclaiming one’s trans body and recognizing oneself as a continual work in progress.

We Dig!

10 mins

Built from conversations with trans women and transfeminine people around the world, the play We Dig by Emma Frankland and Company centers around the actual excavation of a giant hole in the historic Ovalhouse Theatre—a literal representation of a queer community needing to bury itself for protection.

We, Them

3 mins

A couple talks through their concerns before a dinner with parents where they will reveal their true selves. A reminder to us all that we are beautiful.

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