From the Margins: The Trans Film Image

In their new book Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema, available July 9 from Repeater, critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay examine how trans themes and trans people have evolved on screen over the past 60-plus years. In this new screening series at MoMI, Gardner and Maclay have curated a selection of films that speak to the breadth of expression of their analysis, including films from artists as wide-ranging as American auteur Robert Altman, European iconoclasts Rosa von Praunheim and Alain Berliner, and groundbreaking contemporary American-Filipino trans filmmaker Isabel Sandoval. On July 13, Gardner will appear in person to introduce screenings and for a post-screening book signing; Sandoval will also appear in person for a Q&A with Gardner following a screening of Lingua Franca.