Annarchy Artist, an avante-garde drag queen, ellucidates her performances' relationships to gender and childhood while preparing for a night of gogo-dancing.

Annarchy Artist

is one of three intimate portraits featuring those who identify in non-binary ways around their gender and/or sexuality. 

The films are designed to focus on the person, tell truths and dispel the high level of sensationalism on the topic currently being spread by some media. The never-broken focus on the individual commands the viewer to listen and understand, whilst allowing them to form a bond with each person as their story unfolds.

Beyond the Margins - Shay

For the first episode in our new series of Define Gender, British-Iraqi director Amrou Al-Kadhi creates a portrait of London-based artist and performer Victoria Sin. 

“My hope is that viewers will experience the transformative power of Victoria’s drag”, says Al-Kadhi of the project “and will watch this queer unicorn warrior be where they belong - in the cinematic grandeur, with a gaze that they own”.

Define Gender: Victoria Sin

Be transported to the opera in this new film by director and imagemaker Adam Csoka Keller.

 are known to ring out in the drag bar as well as the opera house. In this surreal queer fantasia on classical music, Baroque iconography, and scandalous first-century verse, drag prima donna Divina de Campo premieres an original operatic aria with chamber orchestra by composer V. R. Alevizos.

Europe’s historic concert halls set the stage for an ecstatic meeting of two art traditions which traffic in extremes of gender performance, enacting a space where the drag bar diva and the opera house diva share the same skin.

Diva

 is an exploration of mental health in the drag community, centred around NYC drag queen Blackie O.

Hard Rain

6 men (played by women) steal a monument to masculinity, a golden urinal art installation, to keep their gentlemen’s club 

Smooth talking and smooth rolling gender-blending non-binary owner of the club KingDom.

 the slick and silver tongued crooner, co-owner of KingDom and lounge singer.

 the tricksy spiv and loose canon, whose underworld connections cause all sorts of drama and who has a tendency to set things on fire.

 the diminutive and non-threatening doorman from the US, conspiracy theorist and paranoid about losing his hair/virility.

 the shy and awkward accountant/business manager, tasked with keeping the business on the straight and narrow but who, in his spare time, attends illegal raves and dreams of being a performer.

 the laddish barman, he’s a womaniser, leers at women and is the epitome of fragile masculinity.

In a dark alleyway Moloko Jones narrates an exciting tale of intrigue and adventure and this story of one fateful night comes to life on the screen. He describes how, without an urgent injection of cash, 

faces imminent closure and our cast of eclectic characters face a humiliating and uncertain future. Never one to concentrate on a problem for long Randy suggests they all visit the ‘monument to masculinity’ on show at a local gallery, for a fun lads outing, when suddenly Moloko gets an idea. They could save their beloved bar and get their hands on an iconic work of art reflecting what they value above all else; Manhood. Scoping out the gallery they realise the guard is a bit of a ladies man, just like Steve, and conclude that no one could capture the essence of a seductive woman better than a man. So the boys drag up, the heist begins, and needless to say all does not quite go to plan.

Our gender bending 25 minute comic drama takes thematic inspiration from 

, and stylistic inspiration from films by Edgar Wright.

KingDom

 a sexy, queer, lesbian music video for Trouble Wanted full of high drag and John Waters-style weirdness. Within this western-themed utopia Lonely Cowgirl and her love interest, a Dyke trucker, share more than lusty looks. The night is young, so pull up a bar stool and enjoy the ride!

Lonely Cowgirl - Trouble Wanted

 is a a self described drag queen who has created a refuge for queer people in Sierra Leon.

Queen Harold

 is a short documentary on the intersections of drag, gender identity and queer community from the perspectives of six drag artists at varying stages in their careers.

For a copy of the film the artist has requested you contact them erynmcd [dot] creative [at] gmail.com

Queer Is A Tender Feeling

The film is divided into 4 chapters, each of which shows different levels of drag in Russia. The first chapter shows the representatives of the new drag generation who started these activities not so long ago and were inspired by the show "Rupaul's drag race ". These divas: Gena Marvin and Vanessa Viper used to work in clubs but now they perform in social media. They speak about difficulties of life for gays in Russia, about they drag families and about their day work. The second chapter shows the life and work of older travesties Miss Coco and Margo Mandarinova, which started their job in the late 90s and early 00s. Nowadays, they work in a small club "Malevich" on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg. This chapter shows the difficult life of divas which is filled with desire for fame, alcohol and mental illnesses. The third chapter is about self-acceptance. Bagoa San tells his story of complete acceptance of his nature and uniqueness. In the fourth chapter you see the largest travesty scene in Russia and all the things that happen behind the scenes in the dressing room.

Saint Petersdrag

 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

begins as a seduction song that turns from exaltation to brooding and insidious following the transformation of a blonde woman into a rage fuelled, lip-syncing, six-pack tricking, pearl-dripping, bald creature. 

Moving through themes of gender and power, Sissy Fatigue looks at what it might mean to remove femininity, what lies beneath, and the liberating potential of transgression.

Film by: WET MESS @wet_mess , Oscar Oldershaw @oscaroldershaw , Joseph Campbell @jscramble , Jackie Pratt & Gonnerheous Reese @lambdog1066

Sissy Fatigue 

Based on the performance D is for Drag, this piece explores perceptions and misperceptions of drag and transgendered people by society as a whole, through the witty editing of a figure spinning and transforming around the camera as a gravitational centre.

Slap Drag Ons

La Tortillera was developed by Xandra Ibarra as a live performance in 2004 when she performed under the alias of La Chica Boom. The performance was later archived for camera in 2014. 

, Ibarra takes on her own racial bondage to hot sauce, tacos, and demographic panic in “Tortillera.” She dances a 60’s border corrida as a camp version of a Mexican housewife, makes tacos with her panties, and “spreads her seed” onto tacos with her “Tapatio cock.”

Spictacle II: La Tortillera

A Hi-8 video documentary short on Lesbian Gender Bending culture by Swordfish Productions, Berkeley

Best of Festival - Documentary 2004 Premiere San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2003

Strap ‘Em Down! The World of Drag Kings

In the 1990s, an aspiring drag king comes to Vegas to reconnect with her estranged dad and to make her debut performance in America’s biggest drag king revue.

The Young King

 is an ongoing, iterative performance that connects the drag form of a lip sync to improvisational movement as a practice of freedom and survival.

Untitled Lipsync

An utterly fascinating, beautifully crafted exploration of the world of drag kings—women who dress, perform and/or live as men. 

Shot over a period of several years, we enter into the intimate lives of the film's subjects, Drag King pioneer Diane Torr, garbed as her alter ego Danny King, German performance artist Bridge Markland and in London, Del LaGrace Volcano a photographer whose startling images take us into a subculture of “new men” who experiment with male hormones.

Venus Boyz

In a post-apocalyptic future, an intergalactic explorer lands at an abandoned museum on a quest to find traces of his long-lost ancestors, and ends up being teleported to the dance floor of a Brazilian queer nightclub in the 1990s.

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