![Page 1: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE TRANSGENDER MEDIA PORTAL
LAURA HORAK @TheLorak
TransgenderMediaPortal.org @TransMediaPortl
CARLETON UNIVERSITY, ALGONQUIN TERRITORY
![Page 2: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
vs
ALL ATTENTION GOES TO CIS-MADE WORK
![Page 3: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Trans artists have made thousands of films and videos—incredible, funny, devastating, aesthetically innovative work in all different genres.
But this work can be hard to find.
![Page 4: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
TRANS WORK NOT BEING ARCHIVED
From The Transvestite Today (1987) at the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria
![Page 5: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM 100 YEARS OF TRANS FILMMAKING
![Page 6: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
THE SILENT ERA (1890S-1930S)“Trans and cinema have grown up together.”
– Susan Stryker in Disclosure (2020)
![Page 7: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Writer Karl Martha BaerAKA N. O. Body
German-Jewish trans intersex man1907 autobiography, Memoirs of a Man’s
Maiden Years, adapted to film in 1919
Performer Edna AKA Billy FosterAmerican child actor (active 1911-1915)
29 films, mostly boy roles“They always give me boy parts and I like them better than just being a girl.”
![Page 8: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Christine Jorgensen greeting the NYC press in 1953
Director Ed Wood as Glen in Glen or Glenda (1953)
1950S: SPECTACULAR TRANS FEMININITIES
![Page 9: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
1960S & 1970S: COUNTERCULTURE & EDUCATORS
• Flawless Sabrina’s The Queen (1968)• Warhol superstars Candy Darling,
Jackie Curtis, and Holly Woodlawn• John Waters’ early films with Divine• Wendy Carlos: A Clockwork Orange
(1971), The Shining (1980), TRON(1982)
![Page 10: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
• Erickson Educational Foundation• I Am Not This Body (1970)
Erickson Educational Foundation Newsletter 3, no. 2 (Fall 1970): 2.
1960S & 1970S: COUNTERCULTURE & EDUCATORS
![Page 11: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
1990S: FIRST TRANS FILM FESTIVALS
Toronto, OntarioSeptember 12, 1997
London, EnglandOctober 29 – November 2, 1997
San Francisco, CaliforniaNovember 22, 1997
![Page 12: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
![Page 13: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
2000S & 2010S: RISE OF AMATEURS & PROS• Over 800,000 trans-made YouTube
videos• YouTube celebs: NikkiTutorials, Gigi
Gorgeous, Nikita Dragun, MilesChronicles, etc.
• Web series: Her Story, Eden’s Garden, These Thems, Razor Tongue
![Page 14: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
2000S & 2010S: RISE OF AMATEURS & PROS• Hollywood: Janet Mock,
Laverne Cox, Zackary Drucker, Sam Feder, Silas Howard
Yance Ford
• Yance Ford nominated for Academy Award in 2018
![Page 15: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
BUILDING THE TRANSGENDER MEDIA PORTAL
![Page 16: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
GOALS1. Make trans-made film more available2. Research landscape of trans filmmaking
• What kinds of aesthetic, generic, and narrative strategies have trans filmmakers used?
• How has trans-made cinema changed over time? • What kinds of arts infrastructures have made it
possible for trans people to create audiovisual work? • How have trans-made films circulated and how have
these circuits been created and sustained?
![Page 17: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
STAGE 1 (NOW)• Public website TransgenderMediaPortal.org
• List of BIPOC trans filmmakers• “Support Trans Artists”• Bibliographies• Syllabi
• Pilot private database• Records for Filmmakers, Films, Festivals, Archives,
Distributors, Funding Bodies• 1536 records—566 people and 476 films
![Page 18: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
![Page 19: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
STAGE 2 (FALL 2023)• Database open to the public
• Search and browse all database records• Public able to add, edit, and delete content• Edit-a-thons at trans and LGBT film festivals
![Page 20: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
MAKING THE TMP A TRANS TECHNOLOGY1. Involving trans people in every part of process2. Designing to meet stated needs of trans
filmmakers, programmers, students & activists3. Paying trans RAs, speakers & testers quickly
and well4. Materially supporting trans artists
![Page 21: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
DATA ABOUT PEOPLE’S IDENTITIES• Open vocabularies• Multiple values• No standard vocabularies (at this point)• Maintain specificity of language• Prioritize language coming out of grassroots
communities not institutions• Deadnames: Included in records but hidden
![Page 22: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
CHALLENGES• Messy metadata• Interoperability• Data analysis• White-dominated research teamSee trans user feedback and our project’s commitments to BIPOC trans leadership in our usability test report on Humanities Commonshttps://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:30641/
![Page 23: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Go to: carleton.ca/TransMediaLab
![Page 24: TRACING THE HISTORY OF TRANS FILMMAKING WITH THE ... - …](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050613/62749184f3e76521b40d86e7/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
carleton.ca/TransMediaLab TransgenderMediaPortal.org @TransMediaPortl