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THE CINEMA OF GENDER TRANSGRESSION

August 7 – August 13

August 7-13, 2025

Anthology’s ongoing series “The Cinema of Gender Transgression” is back, and not a moment too soon. An extensive, ongoing series exploring the ways in which cinema has intersected with the experiences, struggles, and ideas of transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming lives and communities, “The Cinema of Gender Transgression” showcases contemporary films and videos that explore concepts related to gender transgression as well as films that have had historical resonance within and beyond these communities.

Transgender and gender-nonconforming issues hold a more prominent place in the national conversation today than ever before, though gender transgression and the experiences of these individuals have always existed. This series aims to call attention to those films that dared to question gender norms in periods when even to broach the topic was considered controversial, and to provide a platform for the contemporary socio-political concerns of trans filmmakers and artists challenging the gender binary today.

The August chapter – the first in five years – features one film we planned to screen in April 2020 – the Michael J. Fox-starring teen classic, TEEN WOLF (1985), which is nothing if not a portrait of identity expression in transformation – alongside a more recent Hollywood film with barely veiled transgender resonances, LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024). We will also be devoting programs to PLEASE HOLD, the brand-new work by longtime filmmaker and activist Alexandra Juhasz, as well as to artists Hazel Katz and Sequinette Jaynesfield. And the August installment will also include a mid-career retrospective of the work of Jessica Dunn Rovinelli, with screenings of her short films and her features, EMPATHY (2016) and SO PRETTY (2019).

“The Cinema of Gender Transgression” is guest-programmed by Joey Carducci and Angelo Madsen.

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