In this tender clay animation, a little girl is mistaken for a boy and relishes the opportunity.


Illuminating the innocence of ﬁrst sexual experiences and the ﬂuidity of gender identity, 

 is a delightful reminiscence of childhood.

Adam

(CW: This work contains sensitive content.)

derives its title from Brandon/Teena Brandon of Nebraska, USA, agender-crossing individual who was raped and murdered in 1993 after his female anatomy was revealed. Cheang's project deploys Brandon into cyberspace through multi-layered narratives and images whose trajectory leads to issues of crime and punishment in the cross-section between real and virtual space.

(BRANDON is a live operational piece of 'Internet art', that is designed to be interactive. The video below is a video navigation of the artwork. To experience the work in its intentional form please click 

BRANDON

 is an animated, experimental, personal documentary about the filmmaker's first year on testosterone from an impressionistic and poetic perspective.

Change Over Time

is a short animated music video celebrating trans joy, trans love, and trans existence. It's made using a combination of analogue and digital animation techniques, including 35mm ﬁlm photography, rotoscoping, and traditional frame by frame animation.

FLORESCENCE

Deep within a rotoscoped dream, three transgender people confront a cataclysmic flood. Featuring stories from Jessie Anderson, Helen Poon and Al Mackay. 

My graduation film for Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Flash Flood is currently represented by the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Center: All screening requests can be made to bookings@cfmdc.org

Screening History:
Festival du Nouveau Cinema - 2017
Whistler Film Festival - 2017
San Francisco Transgender Film Festival - 2017
Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival - 2018
Vancouver Short Film Festival - 2018
Reel 2 Real Film Festival - 2018
Seattle Translations Film Festival - 2018
Los Angeles OUTFEST - 2018
Arkipel Festival Indonesia - 2018
Vancouver Queer Film Festival - 2018
TWIST Seattle Queer Film Festival - 2018
Pittsburgh International LGBTQ+ Festival - 2018
Tilde Melbourne Film Festival - 2018
Reel Q Festival - 2018
Trans Film Fest Stockholm - 2018
NewFest New York - 2018

Flash Flood

Mo is an adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Mo spends a lot of time in their brain. Today, a hole started following them.

Made during G. Goletski's 4th year at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Anibar Animation Festival 2018
Hidalgo International Film Festival 2018
Ottawa International Animation Festival 2018
Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2018
Vancouver International Film Festival 2018
Factual Animation Festival 2018 - Special Mention for Best Short
Dumbo Film Festival 2018
TIFF Next Wave Festival 2019
Athens Animfest 2019
Athens International Film + Video Festival 2019
London International Animation Festival 2019
Toronto Queer Film Festival 2019
The Animation Festival of Halifax 2019
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2019
Queer City Cinema 2019
+more

Exhibited as a part of This is Moving: Illustration on Screen exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton June 21 - September 8, 2019

Screened as a part of the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Opening night gala

Winner of the John C. Kerr Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Media Arts at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design degree exhibition

Winner of The President's Media Award at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design degree exhibition

More of my work can be found at goletski.com.

Hole

A short film merging performance and traditional 16mm abstract animation, exploring the psychogeographical & ephemeral links between contemporary queers in Wales and their familial and cultural roots.

Lord Build Me A Cabin

X is a trans masc person that has just started taking testosterone. When his housemates leave because of the pandemic, X is left alone in his empty house. His new routine leaves plenty of room to dwell on his relationship with his body, his reﬂection, and his loneliness.

Mutaforma

 is one of the major protagonists of the Dutch/Japanese animated series 

. The character Ollie transitions in the show in 2013 and was claimed to be a trans character because their pronouns changed to he/him when he enters his adulthood. 

A stork of the Great Wasteland and one of Alfred's childhood friends, Ollie's kind and determined nature led him in becoming from an unrecognized lawyer to a democratically elected president of his homeland after Dolf's initial defeat. Along with Alfred, he helps his friends in investigating the actions of the villain forces in the second Heroes vs. Villains.

Ollie from Alfred J. Kwak Children's Series 

An experimental animation exploring the disconnect between one's own perception of self and how one is seen by the rest of the world, specifically facing the journey of transition from female to male.

Perception

A short animated film about trans people going to the beach.

QUEERFANTASY 

A ﬁlm about my personal experiences of dysphoria centred around my womb, and chest among other things.

Ripping Out The Womb And Other Things

 is an experimental documentary, centered around a drag performer’s debut. This autobiographical film follows a gender-non conforming artist as they prepare for their first performance, while exploring the personal journey that shaped who they are today. Born in 1999, the 2000s impacted their ideals of masculinity and femininity, this performance is an expression of their queerness and struggles with the confining nature of labels. Lady Boner is an expression of Tiffany’s non-binary/gender fluid identity.

Self-Made Man

, each video's running time is approximately 6 minutes, all videos are animated in a fashion that is very much "do-it-yourself" aesthetic, as told from the point of view of a transgender youth in rural Cape Breton. 

Alec’s animated video trilogy about growing up 2Spirit called Misadventures of Pussy Boy has been screened at numerous film festivals, including TranScreen: International Transgender Film Festival in Amsterdam, where it won the Audience Favorite award. Rough Paradise, a novella about growing up trans/intersex/2spirit in a rough working-class neighborhood, was published in 2014.

Each video was animated by hand, the backgrounds were created like theatre backdrops, with the characters hand-painted and cut out, performing each scene in front of the matching background for the scene. Camera work involved shooting each shot for 3-5 seconds and then manipulating the characters for the next shot over and over again, for hours, then editing the shots together and recording the voice over and music track. These videos are the epitome of "handmade", they were literally a labor of love.

The Misadventures of Pussy Boy Trilogy

 tells of two girls who imagine a world where they can dream, learn, grow, and be together without limits of words and empty homes. The narrator finds a safe place in her pal, Dóra. They give each other an uncharted strength and magic that they didn’t know existed outside of their drawings. Together they build something new.

This story contains quiet bits of magic. It holds layers of vulnerability, pain, gentle wonder, warmth, and power. It carries an LGBTQ narrative often overlooked--it’s not about marriage, it’s not about a simple kind of love. It is about the beginnings: the realisation as a child that so many ways of connecting and building exist. It is about that spark and strength that comes with the realisation of a relationship big and untaught."

, inspired by the director's own coming out journey as trans and more, was developed into a young reader's novel published by Penguin Random House in 2020.

The Ship We Built

A girl's determination to follow her own hoop dreams makes her a college basketball star and the publisher of the first-ever women-in-sports magazine. Using personal narrative, still photography and stop animation, Donna Carter’s 1997 short film Tomboy is an imaginative autobiographical account of an African American tomboy’s journey to success and self-acceptance.

Tomboy

The 6-minute experimental film is a parallel narrative of reciting the poetry lines from Siufung's own poem 

, as well as a black-and-white documentation of themself as a transgender person. Their film attempts to formulate transgender subjectivity through retelling their own gender struggle. By making one of the first experimental films on transgender issues in Asia, Siufung hopes to provoke other transgender individuals to create a language for their own stories.

Unfinished

Based on a text message from their Kokum (grandma), the artist imagines planting seeds for future generations.

Will Flowers?

An illustrated film, based on the oral histories of Zander Keig. 

shows the transitional wisdom that Zander has learned while paralyzed, in a mental hospital, a gang, in the military, transitioning from female-to-male and as a social worker.

Zanderology

 asks what it means to be like all the boys. An assemblage of animation, found footage and personal archives pieces together queer identities from myriad perspectives.

Categories

Animation