“A Shonda” is a short ritual art film filmed in the holy days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Two transsexual Jews commune with the dead, reimagine gendered cultural practices, and attempt to atone for the sins committed in their name.
“A Shonda” is a short ritual art film filmed in the holy days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Two transsexual Jews commune with the dead, reimagine gendered cultural practices, and attempt to atone for the sins committed in their name.
Kei longs for a “normal” life in rural Japan. But for a transgender man who is jobless in his own hometown, getting to normal is one steep climb, especially since Erin, his Canadian partner, longs to move to Tokyo, where they can live openly and freely. On his way to a job interview in the city, Kei meets a stranger. Abandoning his journey to help her, he discovers she is the owner of the hot springs—a place he once loved, as a child. Kei's encounter with the healing waters is complicated by Erin’s turning up as well. Finally, the couple—one on the men's side, the other, on the women's—must face the truth about their divergent wishes, identities, and murky notions of belonging.
A transgender man gets a job at a Mexican restaurant in London. When people start going missing, eyes turn to the animatronic animal characters who perform on the restaurant’s stage.
Not wanting to die in a body that repulses him, Lev, a trans college student, resorts to the most extreme measures possible.
“Pissy Pussy” is a microshort produced for Desert Rat Cinema, described as a “transgender toilet traumadump.” The video is a collage of new and old clips of bathrooms with a voiceover narration detailing two formative urinary traumas that are divorced from the present-day trauma invoked by Wayland’s presence/absence in men’s bathrooms as a transsexual.