Maggots and Men / Pariah
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Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes and Gender-nonconforming Heroes in Cinema. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
Maggots and Men (2009)
A work that conjures the old Soviet film technique and similar pastiche works by Guy Maddin, Cary Cronenwett’s spirited revisionist period film places transmasculine bodies at the radical heart of the 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion. Creatively reimagining the uprising, the story contrasts a performative theater troupe that narrates moments of the story with scenes of the rebellion against the autocracy of the Bolshevik Party. Featuring the largest cast of trans actors in a film, Maggots and Men plays with cinema and history to tell a gender defiant story that is both playful and subversive.
Digital video, b&w, 53 min. Director: Cary Cronenwett. Screenwriter: Ilona Berger, Cary Cronenwett, Blake Nemec. With: Stormy Henry Knight, Travis Clough, Scout Festa.
Pariah (2011)
Dee Rees’ tender feature debut is a rich and vulnerable queer coming of age story about an African American butch lesbian having to face familial homophobia and the realization that the people she loves can hurt and disappoint her. Alike is a promising poet and good student who is hiding her sexual identity from her parents. When she is forced to make friends with a girl from church, she develops a serious crush that feels like the beginning of her sexual awakening and her first taste of true love. Adapted from her award-winning short, Rees’ film deftly and compassionately captures the fraught and transformative experience of a gender non-conforming adolescence.
DCP, color, 86 min. Director: Dee Rees. Screenwriter: Dee Rees. With: Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Aasha Davis.
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