At this point he seems to be someone who gets movies financed so people cast him — certainly not for his performances though!

I feel like I just took a Time Machine back to the 2000s…haven’t thought about Clap Your Hands in a long time! (The trouble I suppose with all our music being digital rather than CDs you go look at.)

I doubt that we will ALL agree on everything, and if you disagree with us, great! That’s why there’s loads of built in time for audience Q&A + discussion so you can put your ideas in dialogue with ours!

Come join us: seventh-row.com/livingoutloud

And it will be an *even* richer experience if you join us for the panels on Friday & Saturday, too — because I’ve chosen the film to speak to the themes of the event: reclaiming LGBTQ+ history & LGBTQ+ stories.

And the more context you have for a film, the deeper your access to it.

Register here:

…and that’s just day 1!

But it will help frame the ongoing conversation around what stories get told (and which ones are still missing), why queer + trans films matter, and how films are always negotiating how to make history (even when they’re about recent history, 1-10 years ago).

I’m really excited that this panel includes people who are:
- making films
- creating queer & trans archives
- studying the relationship between film and the archive
- doing the work to reclaim history (as educators, artists, and scholars)
- in Canada, UK, and US

(And it’s only 4 people!)

I've been an Alice Winocour fan since I fell in love with DISORDER at Cannes in 2015, and have since spent countless hours interviewing her and her team about how she makes her films.

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