Screening of 'Framing Agnes', followed by a casual discussion, as part of PRSC's monthly School of Activism film screening series.

We will be fundraising for local trans healthcare initiatives at the event - bring cash! (if that is a thing you have)

"Agnes, the pioneering, pseudonymized transgender woman who participated in
Harold Garfinkel’s gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s, has long stood as a figurehead of trans history.

In this rigorous cinematic exercise that blends fiction and nonfiction, director Chase Joynt explores where and how her platform has become a pigeonhole. Framing Agnes endeavors to widen the frame through which trans history is viewed — one that has remained too narrow to capture the multiplicity of experiences eclipsed by Agnes’s.

Through a collaborative practice of reimagination, an impressive lineup of trans stars (Zackary Drucker, Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Max Wolf Valerio, Silas Howard, and Stephen Ira) take on vividly rendered, impeccably vintage reenactments, bringing to life groundbreaking artifacts of trans health care.

Joynt’s signature form-rupturing style radically re-envisions the imposition of the frame on the cultural memory of transness through his brilliantly crafted, communally driven excavation. This reclamation tears away with remarkable precision the myth of isolation as the mode of existence of transgender historymakers, breathing new life into a lineage of collaborators and conspirators who have been forgotten for far too long."

Sundance Programmers, 2022

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