No Ordinary Man / Chavela
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Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
In-person: Q&A with co-director Chase Joynt, writer Amos Mac, curators Caden Mark Gardner and Jenni Olson.
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.
No Ordinary Man (2020)
Trans jazz musician Billy Tipton lived in stealth for much of his life. After his 1989 death from health complications, his trans identity was revealed and a tabloid media circus against him and his family followed. Filmmakers Chase Joynt, Aisling Chin-Yee and Amos Mac return to Tipton’s story, enlisting transmasculine performers as well as trans historians to rehabilitate and reconsider Tipton’s life story and critique how the mainstream media often misunderstands trans masculinity.
DCP, color, 83 min. Director: Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt.
Chavela (2017)
A tremendous portrait of legendary Mexican lesbian singer Chavela Vargas. The world-famous performer was a gun-toting, tequila-loving, macho butch rumored to have had dalliances with Frida Kahlo and Ava Gardner. From being the toast of Mexico City in the 1960s and ’70s to falling into obscurity in the 1980s, the film follows her return to the world stage as muse to Pedro Almodóvar — culminating in her Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys in 2007. Friends, colleagues and ex-lovers discuss her legacy and the film is packed with amazing archival material. A joy to watch from first frame to last.
DCP, color, 93 min. Director: Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi.
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