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Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance
- Director: Madsen Minax
- Producer: Madsen Minax; Simon Strikeback
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Catchy title...!
The trans-music scene...yes, it exists.
Worth watching for Systyr Act - very funny.
Unfortunately, there are those that take it just a little too seriously and their music isn't exactly a harmonious experience.
There are two distinct groups of trans-musicians: those on hormones and those not on hormones - we learn - at length - all about the changes in their voices. Not exactly gripping.
Filmed with a cheap camera, too long, overly repetitive...but, it does have a certain appeal.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Riot Acts is a transfabulous rockumentary representing the whole lives of transgender and gender variant musicians, through a first-hand perspective of the intersections between gender performance and stage performance. This feature-length documentary highlights issues crucial to interviewees such as songwriting, voice presentation, presenting a body or bodies on stage, audiences, venues, the idea of the spectacle, media representation, performing gender and notions about 'drag,' and the personal as political. The film culminates with the notions that identities and bodies are undeniably political, and the the trans experience isn't always one of tragedy, but one of creativity and joy.
Cast & Characters
Rahne Alexander;
Kristen Anchor;
Radford Bishop;
Travis Clough;
Ryka De La Cruz;
Venus Demars;
Temim Fruchter;
River Gordon;
Rocco Kayiatos;
Shawna Love;
Sarafina Maraschino;
Kelly Moe;
Elijah Oberman;
Adhamh Roland;
Greg Sensing