FRAMING AGNES
AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY MAY 5-8
IN-PERSON MAY 7 @ 6:45PM @ NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
With pre-recorded Q&A with director Chase Joynt, writer Morgan M Page, documentary participant and historical Jules Gill-Peterson, and moderator and programmer Andrew Robbins
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FRAMING AGNES
Chase Joynt (he/him); 2022; USA; 75 min.
In 1958, a young trans woman named Agnes entered a study about sex disorders at UCLA hoping to get the gender-affirming care she needed. Her story has long been considered one of a kind, until never-before-seen case files of other patients with similar stories were found in 2017. FRAMING AGNES tells Agnes’s story, along with other patients from the same clinic, giving us a window into the joys and hardships of living as a trans person at the time.This genre-blurring documentary uses reenactment and boundary-pushing storytelling techniques to breathe new life into the previously unknown people who redefined gender in the mid-century. Director Chase Joynt (NO ORDINARY MAN) brings together an all-star cast of transgender artists and performers, including Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Zackary Drucker, Silas Howard, Max Wolf Valerio (Gendernauts, Max), and Stephen Ira, to bring these lost stories to life, relating them to their contemporary experiences.
CONTENT WARNINGS: NONE