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Truth Be Told: Documentary Shorts

At a time when so much of our queer culture is under attack, this program celebrates the archives and the memories of our ancestors and paves a path toward our future.

Short films showing in this program:

Dr. XYZ: A Medical Drag Transthology

14 mins

Dr. XYZ is a community-made trans+ healthcare training film and ethnofiction. It is an exercise in queering the public information film genre, shot in 16mm. The film weaves ethnographic healthcare accounts from Birmingham’s trans+ community with moments of drag-satire re-enactment to depict a collective vision of the UK’s healthcare system.

Everywhere I Look

16 mins

A young trans woman travels back to places she visited as a child with her mother, reflecting on memory, loss, and grief.

Lloyd Wong, Unfinished

29 mins

In this experimental documentary, Lesley Loksi Chan combines Lloyd Wong's footage with fragments of her research notes to reflect on what it means to inherit images from queer communities and to attempt to understand someone through multiple takes.

The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives

20 mins

The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives follows a mobile archiving center in a cargo trailer as it crosses the Midwest to digitize the VHS tapes of LGBTQ+ folks living in Middle America.

Shelly’s Leg

16 mins

In 1970, an eccentric young stripper named Shelly Baumann loses her leg in a freak parade canon accident, then uses her settlement money to open 'Shelly's Leg' disco — one of the nation's first and most consequential openly gay spaces. Narrated by Kathleen Turner.

Expected Guests

El Jaunts
Director (Dr. XYZ)
Raviv Piccus
Producer (Dr. XYZ)
November Nolan
Director (Everywhere I Look)
Brydie O’Connor
Director (The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives)

Streaming Note: This program can be streamed anywhere in the United States.

Tickets

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Running Time
89 mins
Language
English
Section
Shorts Programs
Community Partners