Secret Men’s Club Moment #133
2009, 16mm, 1 minute
A simple office exchange becomes a highly dramatized metaphor for exclusionary male culture, offering a sardonic critique for this ubiquitous but often invisible brotherhood.
Screenings:
Original Plumbing Release Party: Workspace, Los Angeles, 2010. Currated by Darin Klein
Stray Beasts: Showcave, Los Angeles, 2010.
PIG (Politically Involved Girls)
2009, HD video with live performance, 17 minutes
Using appropriated dialogue from films significant to transgender history, PIG is an expression of how community persists despite an undertow of misrepresentation, as well as a resurrection and channeling of our sisters voice’s from the past. Exploiting society's construction of trans as a “monstrous biological joke," Zackary Drucker, Mariana Marroquin, and Wu Ingrid Tsang manifest a world in which satire, trauma, and kyky sexuality abound.
Performed live with video by Rhys Ernst
Screenings:
NOWFEST: REDCAT, Los Angeles, 2009
Ecstatic Resistance at X Initiative, NYC, 2010
Tristan and Zooey
short film in development, to be shot in fall 2010
Gender, cats, and mythical roadside attractions are at the center of a tumultuous roadtrip embarked upon by a young woman and transman. Will the young couple break up? Will the cat get a UTI? Will they ever find out what's at their mysterious destination known as "The Thing"???
Sister George
super 16mm short film, currently in post-production (due out in late 2010)
The famous "cigar scene" of The Killing of Sister George is re-imagined through a humanist, feminist, transgendered lens.
Funded in part by the Cal Arts Deans Council Grant and a Kodak Grant
The Drive North
2003, super 8, 13 minutes
(from the distributor): "Two youths bicker their way up the East Coast and through a discomforting and poignant transition into adulthood. Using still images, animation, Super-8 and an experimental score composed and performed by the filmmaker, The Drive North subverts the typical coming-of-age tale with social commentary, humor and an understated identity-politics slant. This savvy short demonstrates the skills of the next generation of media makers, seamlessly incorporating an astute sense of self-reflection, rebellion and family relationships."
Screenings include: Oberhausen, Chicago International Film Fest, New Fest, Mix, Frameline, and 30+ other festivals (see Awards section of site)
N Train
2009, animation, 3 minutes
A collage of MetroCards raises the curtain on the layered, cut-out animation of N Train, which captures the frenetic beat of city life with its snapshot of a young, queer New Yorker trying to connect.
Screenings:
MixFest (*OPENING NIGHT), NYC, 2009
CineMental, Boston, 2009
Homo A Go Go, San Francisco, 2009
