Disclosure: A Trans Re-reading of American Cinema
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Mar 30, 2025
Ongoing
The groundbreaking documentary Disclosure from director Sam Feder examines transgender depictions in film and television through the lens of trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox (also an executive producer), Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, Mj Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton and Chaz Bono, to name a few. By allowing the personal recollections of his interviewees to mold the recounting of 100-plus years of trans cinematic history, Feder invites viewers to bear witness to a necessary act of reclamation and refutation of trans erasure.
This program selects seven out of the hundreds of films the documentary cites and screens them in their entirety. This series also includes six short films with trans characters at the center of the stories ranging from the 1800s (Tourmaline’s Mary of Ill Fame) through present day (Hao Zhou’s Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way).