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Trans Short

CGiii Rating

Seen at...

  • Edinburgh International Film Festival

Public Rating

Beside the Water, 1999-2004

Country: USA, Language: English, 12 mins

Trans Short | 2018
  • Director: Finn Paul

CGiii Comment

Have some dignity!

Who wants to watch a trans*man masturbate? Not us!

Apart from the gross indecency...a totally soporific film.

Trailer...

Trailer: beside the water, 1999-2004 from Finn Paul on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Still photographs of desert landscapes and trans bodies interact in this essay film to tell a story of isolation, intimacy, and trauma within an American trans masculine community of the early 2000's. Beside the water, proposes an alternative mode of retrieving and disseminating a trans past through familial relations and the erotic. Piecing together evidences of a past via an individuals mementos, this work places trans sexual experiences in conversation with a non-linear idea of history, that is both real and fabricated, defiantly looking towards a future of pleasure, beauty, sincerity, and fantasy.