Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • I Was Born This Way
  • Hal & Harper
  • State of Firsts
  • Outerlands
  • Secret Lives of My Three Men (The)
  • Latter-Day Glory: The Aftermath of Growing Up Queer in the LDS Church
  • Monk in Pieces
  • Flamingo Camp
  • Lurker
  • Wicked: For Good
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
  • War Between the Land and the Sea (The)
  • Tom Daley: 1.6 Seconds
  • Black Phone 2
  • Stockholm Pride
  • Inside the Dream Mugler
  • Mums
  • This Is Me
  • Room to Move
  • Innocents (The)
  • Vanilla
  • Clocked
  • Starwalker
  • Situationship
  • American Pastoral (An)
  • Jerrod Carmichael: Don't Be Gay
  • Queens of the Night
  • Matteo Lane: The Al Dente Special
  • Homem com H
  • Love Me Bait Me: The Power of Queer Representation
  • Snakes and Ladders
  • And Someone Else
  • Drag in the Dark
  • Into the Menstrualverse
  • More Beautiful Perversions
  • Prince (The)
  • Squid Game
  • 3670
  • New Dawn (A)

Approach/Withdraw

Country: UK, Language: English, 10 mins

  • Director: Juliet Jacques; Ker Walwork

CGiii Comment

Perhaps it needed more than all the [mostly random] images!

Very scientific!


Watch...

Approach/Withdraw, Collaboration between Juliet Jacques and Ker Wallwork from Ker Wallwork on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Approach/Withdraw is a ten-minute, 16mm film narrated by Rebecca Root, which explores how public understandings of oestrogen and sex hormones affect the sense of self and relationships of those who feel at odds with their assigned gender. The majority of the material featured either relate to the production of pharmaceutical oestrogen (the contraceptive pill, or hormones used by trans women) or contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals – substances that behave like oestrogen when they are absorbed into the body. They are common in plastics, fabric dyes and soy products. The film also incorporates Christian imagery, 19th century phrenological head casts and photographs taken by 20th century sexologists, to illustrate ways in which contemporary identities bear the marks of religious and scientific precepts.