Trans Ecologies: In the Garden of Earthly Delights
“In the Garden of Earthly Delights” explores the connection between bodies and spaces – the ways in which we inhabit, exhibit, through the experience of sensations and inhibitions. It celebrates the relationships that are enabled through the fostering of community; this extends not only to those we call friends, muses, lovers but also to our connection with the Earth and all that it provides.
Program:
On the Other Side Of (dir. Mia Felić, 2024, Estonia), 7 mins
This work explores the transgender and non-binary body in transition through the 19th century photographic process mordançage. The mordançage, using its tremendous chemical pressure alters the silver gelatine prints, causing them to undergo slow, gradual transformation. The tissue of the body and of the print breaks and a new life, new forms are born.
Divine Affirmation (dir. Stella Vincenza Racca and Theodore Zachariah, 2024, Canada), 3 mins
A short experimental film celebrating and reaffirming trans beauty, joy, and bodies.
VideOvide Hermaphrodite (dir. Samuel Bester, 2024, France), 10 mins
Based on Hermaphrodite from Book IV of Ovid’s Metamorphoses translated by Marie Cosnay.
The Last Supper (dir. Luly, Corina Santiago, 2024, Brazil), 5 mins
The Last Supper is one of the most emblematic works by Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci. In it, the artist depicts the last supper of Jesus Christ alongside his apostles, moments before he was crucified. Santiago’s film subverts the distinction between bodies that are considered holy “endowed with virtues, innocence, piety and purity” and bodies that are considered profane “everyone who practices or commits failure, crime, injustice, evil, corruption, impiety, depravity, rebellion or transgression of the will of God.” in front of society. The Last Supper aims to build a living tableau of da Vinci’s work and counter this historically and socially pre-established idea.
You are here (dir. Sarah Hill, 2024, United States), 9 mins
“You are here” is a love letter between Hayley Morgenstern and Sarah Hill. We started this film before we were even pregnant, it was our way of bringing you here. This film portrays a nonlinear narrative of the alienating process of becoming pregnant as a trans and non-binary couple. The images move between, claymation, animation, paper dolls receiving medical care, puppets and live footage and archival footage from our previous collaborations as well as found audio from a 1950’s informational pregnancy video. The rabbit is the third character in the film, representing a multitude of histories in regards to pregnancy and eventually becomes our baby.
Snakeskin (dir. Emily Bendeck Garay, 2024, Canada), 12 mins
A trans girl misses her train stop one night and embarks on a surreal journey back home as her dreams start leaking into her reality.
Kokum’s Love (dir. Bianca Rêgo, 2024, United Kingdom), 10 mins
A love letter about transitions, from the wisdom of older generations to the experiences of the present for the curiosities of the future.