TRANSQUEBEC
A retrospective of quebecois trans cinema + Q&A
While the rest of our festival focuses on the present and future of trans cinema, our closing screening pays homage to the Quebecois trans pioneers without whom none of this would be possible. This event will take you on a journey across the history of trans cinema in the province, followed by a Q&A with the featured artists.
Program:
- Tremblement De Chair Extended Version (Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky, 2001, Canada) – 7 min
- A poetic meditation on the beauty, perils and power of sexuality in a transsexual woman’s body.
- Gendertroublemakers (Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra MacKay, 1993, Canada) – 20 min
- What happens when two Transdykes get sick of non-transsexual’s uninformed representation of their sexualities and their lives? They grab their 8 millimeter home video camera, their last 200 bucks, and come up with an uncompromising in-your-face flick about their shitty relationships with gay men and their unabashed attraction to other transsexual women.
- Ripe (Raphaël Bessette, 2024, Canada), 3 mins
- Ripe is a short hand-made abstract animation film that explores the theme of trans temporality. When can it be said that one has become trans, is there a point of trans ripeness? The abstract visual work responds to a poem by poet Sallie Fullerton and gestures towards collectivity in trans becoming.
- Scores for Non Binary Listening #1: Thresholds (Nik Forrest, 2023, Canada), 12 min
- Heart Berry (Kijâtai-Alexandra Veillette-Cheezo, 2020, Canada) – 3 min
- Intimately framing their body, the filmmaker takes us on a rhythmic, poetic meditation on “Odehimin” — the affirming act of reconnecting with oneself and relearning to love oneself.
- Don’t Text Back! (Kaye Adelaide and Mariel Sharp, 2020, Canada) – 15 min
- A woman seeks the help of an energy healer to rid herself of a cursed necklace that strangles her every time she doesn’t text back her bad Tinder date.
- The Man From Venus (James Diamond , 1999), 4 min
- The Man From Venus is a true glimpse into the artists’ continuous mental processing. A dialog which tends to reflect and deflect a generalized public perspective that is designed to dictate humanity.
- PUBLIC P(ARTS) (James Diamond, 2015) – 8 min
- PUBLIC P(ARTS) is an exploration of trans-male being. In the video, a man and his prosthesis have a bath.
- TTT (kimura byol lemoine, 2024, Canada) – 3 min
- After the 100th ‘The Thursday Testo,’ (TTT), the tri-languistical references such as the Roman and Korean (Hangeul) alphabets and the Japanese syllabic (Katana) alphabet of the word TRANS on a comedy sketch by Kě. /// Après la 100e prise de ‘Testo du jeudi’ (en anglais TTT), les références trilingues comme l’alphabet romain et coréen (Hangeul) et l’alphabet syllabique japonais (Katana) du mot TRANS sur un sketch de Kě.
- Chimera (Coral Short, 2015, Canada) – 5 min
- Pre Drink (Marc-Antoine Lemire, 2017, Canada) – 22 min
- ALEXE est une jeune femme trans, et CARL un homme gai. Meilleurs amis depuis toujours, une soirée passée ensemble déstabilise ALEXE, lorsque les deux décident de coucher ensemble pour la première fois. /// ALEXE is a young trans woman, and CARL a gay man. Best friends since forever, an evening spent together destabili
- Au Pays Des Esprits (Rémy Huberdeau, 2009, Canada) – 4 min
- Home of the Buffalo is a haunting and lyrical film made with archival images (dated between 1920-1940) from the Canadian prairies, timed to a narration about a trans kid’s relationship to his father, and his family’s relationship to the Great Plains, as a territory and as a colonial project.
Runtime: 91 mins