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SHORT FILM PROGRAM

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Orchids and more

Transgender Shorts

Monday

May 6, 2013

@

4:00 pm

Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012

With in person.
Director
Year
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CONTENT WARNING:
This film is presented in with English subtitles.
Documentary filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on her journey of self-discovery to embrace her future and reconcile the past shame and family secrecy surrounding her intersex condition. Despite her mother’s outright refusal to be in the film, Phoebe decides she must push on with her quest to resolve her life story and connect with other intersex people on camera. With the help of her sister Bonnie and support from her partner James, she hits the open road and reflects on her youth. Other shorts to be announced.
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On the Seventh Day

CONTENT WARNING:
A humorous and provocative short film that follows a woman's daily make-up routine. Inspired by an old motion picture, she puts aside the social constraints on her day of rest to reveal her true identity.

Orchids

CONTENT WARNING:
Documentary filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on her journey of self-discovery to embrace her future and reconcile the past shame and family secrecy surrounding her intersex condition. Despite her mother’s outright refusal to be in the film, Phoebe decides she must push on with her quest to resolve her life story and connect with other intersex people on camera. With the help of her sister Bonnie and support from her partner James, she hits the open road and reflects on her youth.

Perception

CONTENT WARNING:
An experimental animation exploring the disconnect between one’s own perception of self and how one is seen by the rest of the world, specifically facing the journey of transition from female to male.

Spiral Transition

CONTENT WARNING:
Spiral Transition is a compelling, candid, and interwoven documentary exploring the filmmaker's relationship with his mother and how it is evolving, transforming, and changing as he transitions genders. The film beautifully portrays the mother's feelings of loss and grief as her child transitions from being her daughter to becoming her son.

The Pink Ribbon

CONTENT WARNING:
The condo I was raised in, the cats, my mother, and me-- smiling through the gloom of cancer."  Selections from MIX NYC: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. The Seder Justin E. Kelly 13 Canada 2011 English When openly gay Leo decides to bring his boyfriend Mitchell home for the first time at his families’ Seder the boundaries of love and understanding get a little strained. And to top it all off Rabbi Solomon is the guest of honor on this most special of occasions. Will everything go smoothly or will it all go to pot? We’re saving you a seat next to Elijah so you can find out.  Best of the Festival Shorts Program Men's Shorts Program The Thing Rhys Ernst 15 USA 2011 English A woman, a transgendered man, and their cat travel toward a mysterious roadside attraction known as The Thing.""

Threadbare

CONTENT WARNING:
A big transgender body dons and sheds a closetful of sweaters at maximum speed. Meanwhile, the character remembers - through tragicomic poetry - an inter-generational relationship that went awry many years ago. When the film begins, the character is remembering his former lover, who remarked that her favourite sweater was older than he was. By the film's end, however, the narrative has propelled the character from a forlorn past into a dandy future, all on the wings of verse and subversive fashion.

Charlotte

CONTENT WARNING:
A beautiful, young woman in desperate need of love musters up the courage to go on her first internet date - but unfortunately her date and her don't see eye to eye.

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