TRANS AM: SHORTS
Sunday October
21
9:00 P.M.
Little Theatre
Explore the many faces of gender in this collection of shorts. Award-winning documentary NO DUMB QUESTIONS presents three young sisters trying to understand their uncle's upcoming sex change operation. TASTE savors unexpected love when a waitress becomes infatuated with a chef, while LA DIFFERENCE finds that bar life can actually lead to personal transformation. PHALLOCY documents an FTM's experience of transitioning. Even domestic animals can be trapped in the wrong body in TRANSANIMALS. A woman aggressively fulfills her maternal instinct in EXPECTING. Finally, JOURNEY INTERSEX follows photographer Del La Grace Volcano as he assists his cousin research her gender history.
TRANSANIMALS; Rachel Antel Amy L. Hill Rebecca Weiner, director; 2001; USA; 18 minutes; video
NO DUMB QUESTIONS; Melissa Regan, director; 2001; USA; 25 minutes; video
LA DIFFERENCE; Rita King, director; 1999; Switzerland; 9 minutes; 35mm
JOURNEY INTERSEX; Del LaGrace Volcano, director; 2000; UK; 23 minutes; video
PHALLOCY; Jay Sennett, director; 2000; USA; 3 minutes; video
EXPECTING; Richard Press, director; 2000; USA; 3 minutes; video
TASTE; Lisa Dombrowski, director; 2000; Australia; 22 minutes; 16mm