WELL DRESSED / 10 minutes, color super-8 film, 2006
This experimental documentary meditates on the space between two bodies and explores three key bodies in transition: the erotic “cruising” body, the transgender body, and the pregnant body. In depicting moments of change or redefinition for these physical bodies, Well Dressed imagines unexpected points of convergence. Integrating devices of narrative, fantasy, documentary, and the confessional, Well Dressed is a series of provocations. Each gesture points to failures and fantasies-- the failed sexual cruise between the young queer body and an older male, the fantasy of sex between the gender queer body and the biological male, a friendship between a transitioned FTM and a pre-op FTM, the queering of maternity, and the return to the fetus and newborn. These scenes recontextualize narratives of sex, birth, and becoming.
Distributed through Video Data Bank's compilation:
CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits
FESTIVALS + SCREENINGS
Sensate Cinema: Practices for Slow Encounters: A Festival for Camera & Body, UMBC, Baltimore, MD
A Good Night’s Sleep Screening Series, Northampton, MA
Funen Art Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, England
Montreal Queer Film Festival, Canada
Boston LGBT Film Festival, Cambridge, MA
Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Threat Level: Experimental Film/Video Festival, Chicago, IL
Echo Park Film Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
San Diego International Women’s Film Festival, CA (winner of Best of San Diego Award)
Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA