Transgender Historical past in Fascinating ‘Framing Agnes’ Doc Official Trailer
by Alex Billington
November 18, 2022
Supply: YouTube
“Quiet however decisive radicality.” Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for Framing Agnes, an award-winning documentary that first premiered on the 2022 Sundance Movie Pageant earlier this 12 months. The doc movie focuses on transgender people all through historical past – performers, artists, and thinkers. Framing Agnes turns the speak present format inside out in response to media’s ongoing fascination with trans folks. The movie breathes life into six beforehand unknown tales from the archives within the UCLA Gender Clinic. “This collective reclamation breaks down the parable of isolation amongst transgender history-makers, respiration new life right into a lineage of collaborators and conspirators who’ve been forgotten for much too lengthy.” The title within the title refers to a transgender girl who used the faux title Agnes throughout a research at UCLA within the Sixties in an effort to get gender-affirming healthcare. After Sundance, it performed at many different fests this 12 months together with BFI Flare, Outfest LA, Seattle, Vancouver, Queer Lisboa & the Montclair Movie Pageant. Take a look beneath.
This is the primary official trailer (+ poster) for Chase Joynt’s doc Framing Agnes, direct from YouTube:
The pseudonymous Agnes was a pioneering transgender girl who participated in an notorious gender well being research carried out at UCLA within the 60s. Her intelligent use of the research to achieve entry to gender-affirming healthcare led to her standing as a captivating & celebrated determine in trans historical past. On this cinematic train that blends fiction and nonfiction, director Chase Joynt makes use of Agnes’ story, together with others unearthed in long-shelved case information, to widen the body by way of which trans historical past is seen. By means of a collaborative apply of reimagination, an all-star forged of trans performers, artists, and thinkers – together with Angelica Ross (Pose), Jen Richards (Mrs. Fletcher), and Zackary Drucker (Clear) – all tackle vividly rendered, impeccably classic reenactments, bringing to life groundbreaking artifacts of trans historical past. This collective reclamation breaks down myths of isolation amongst transgender history-makers, respiration new life right into a lineage of many collaborators and conspirators who’ve been forgotten for much too lengthy.
Framing Agnes is directed by Canadian filmmaker Chase Joynt, director of the doc movie No Extraordinary Man beforehand, plus quite a few different brief movies. Produced by Samantha Curley and Shant Joshi. This initially premiered on the 2022 Sundance Movie Pageant, the place it gained the Subsequent Viewers Award and Subsequent Innovator Award. Kino Lorber will debut Chase Joynt’s doc Framing Agnes in choose US theaters (NY & LA) beginning on December 2nd, 2022 this fall. For more information, go to the movie’s official website. Anybody fascinated about watching?
