Transgender lesbian museum professional. Casual film nerd, trying to bring new experiences and perspectives where I can.
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The Watermelon Woman 1996
It is truly incredible how The Watermelon Woman shows the struggles of researching underexplored and intersectional histories. How history is maintained is political; how it is archived and collected are a vast series of decisions. Overcoming those decades of erasure and silence is difficult, but oh my god is the result ever beautiful.
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
The visual references to Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Ginza scene, particularly the black rain that falls in the aftermath, left me stunned. Truly haunting in a way that I will be thinking about for a long time.
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Velvet Goldmine 1998
After watching this again, I immediately had to go listen to My Baby's On Fire.
It is hard to get queerer than this, but I am absolutely open to the challenge by future projects.
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Framing Agnes 2022
It is an incredible feeling to finally feel "seen". Framing Agnes is a revolutionary discussion and commentary on trans existence and being, from a uniquely trans perspective. The obvious comparison is to Disclosure, both for the production and for the narrative. As Jen Richards described in one panel on the film, while Disclosure was a trans documentary for cisgender audiences, Framing Agnes is a trans documentary for trans audiences. It feels like it gets into the nuances of transgender existence…
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