Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015. 7:30p, FREE.
Christopher’s Chronicles, Christopher Lee & Elise Hurwitz, US, 1996, 30 min.
Trappings of Transhood, Christopher Lee & Elise Hurwitz, US, 1997, 27 min.
Followed by a post-screening conversation with curator Leeroy Kun Young Kang and scholar and public health research scientist Sel J. Hwahng.
Curator: Leeroy Kun Young Kang
This screening is part of Dirty Looks: On Location and sponsored by APICHA Community Health Center
This program highlights the ...
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015. 7:30p, FREE.
Christopher’s Chronicles, Christopher Lee & Elise Hurwitz, US, 1996, 30 min.
Trappings of Transhood, Christopher Lee & Elise Hurwitz, US, 1997, 27 min.
Followed by a post-screening conversation with curator Leeroy Kun Young Kang and scholar and public health research scientist Sel J. Hwahng.
Curator: Leeroy Kun Young Kang
This screening is part of Dirty Looks: On Location and sponsored by APICHA Community Health Center
This program highlights the documentary work of late transgender filmmaker and activist Christopher Lee. Lee’s first film, Christopher’s Chronicles, a record of the artist’s transition from female to male was among the very first films made by and about a transgender man of color and premiered at the 1997 Frameline Festival. Through his use of interviews, video collage, and music (including transgender artist Chloe Dzubilo’s band, Transisters), Lee’s second feature documentary film, Trappings of Transhood focuses on the stories and lived experiences of a multiracial group of transmen who candidly share their experiences of negotiating issues of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and the medical industry within their process of transition. Trappings of Transhood was the first known feature length work to document the experiences of transmen, and has been screened internationally. This will be both the first NYC screening of Lee’s two documentary films since his death in 2012 and within an NYC festival setting since 1997.
Select Screenings:
1997 Frameline Film Festival
1997 MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
1997 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
1999 Northwest Transgender Film Festival
2000 Lesben Film Festival Berlin
Dirty Looks: On Location is a series of queer intervention in New York City spaces. Over the course of July, artist film and video will appear in these queer social spaces and former sites of queer sociality (like shuttered bars, bathhouses, and former meeting zones). A new piece, a different setting on each night of July. The summer in New York is hot, sticky and social. Installing moving image works around the city in bars, centers and “haunted” venues allows for the free flow of viewers to engage and celebrate with work, in evening events that commemorate contemporary movingimage production and its precedents in queer culture.