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Framing Agnes

Country: USA, Language: English, 20 mins

Trans Short | 2018

Director: Chase Joynt; Kristen Schilt
Producer: Samantha Curley

CGiii Comment

Perhaps...a straight-forward documentary...or, a dramatisation of the material would have worked better.

This hybrid docu-drama comes across more as a 'making-of' rather than a fully-fledged short film.

Trailer...

Framing Agnes (2018) Trailer from Chase Joynt on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

In the late 1950s, a woman named Agnes approached the UCLA Medical Center seeking sex reassignment surgery. Her story was long considered to be exceptional and singular until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Watch as preeminent trans culture-makers of our time breathe new life into those who redefined gender in the midcentury. Starring Zackary Drucker (Transparent), Angelica Ross (Pose), Silas Howard (By Hook or By Crook), and Max Wolf Valerio (The Testosterone Files).