Join us at Visions Video for a screening of Louise Weard's Castration Movie Part I, a labyrinthine post-modern epic about gender.About this Event
Castration Movie is a labyrinthine post-modern epic about gender. A trans woman named Michaela “Traps” Sinclair (filmmaker Louise Weard) is a sex worker in Vancouver who splits her time between seeing clients and hanging out with her group of trans friends. As the weight of the world piles up on her she decides to reclaim some sense of control by seeking out a back-alley orchiectomy.
The first part of Castration Movie (running 275 minutes with an intermission) contains two chapters:
In Chapter i. Incel Superman, a production assistant named Turner Stewart (Noah Baker) sees his world spiral out of control as he uncompromisingly attempts to shape his life into the one he feels he deserves.
In Chapter ii. Traps Swan Princess, a trans sex worker named Michaela “Traps” Sinclair (Louise Weard) finds her relationships becoming increasingly strained as she decides to pursue motherhood.
Director Bio: Louise Weard is a director with a degree in Film Semiotics. She is responsible for the films Computer Hearts and Castration Movie.
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Selected Reviews:
“As daring and revolutionary an indie film as any crafted this decade.” - William Bibbiani, The Wrap
“Castration Movie mixes Cassavetes-level rawness, a dazed Warholian languor and quotable banter worthy of Kevin Smith… With its scenes of unsimulated sex, water-sports, self-harm and the graphic aftermath of surgery, Castration Movie’s list of trigger warnings is longer than some films’ scripts.” - Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian
“Castration Movie holds the shimmering promise of what cinema can be now, when multiplex fare has entered its moribund final act and fascism is tightening its grip on dissent, free expression, and the rights of the vulnerable. Great films about real things made on the margins are evermore essential, and this is a great film.” - Chris Sheilds, Screen Slate
“It's so painful and good that I can only bear to watch it in like, fifteen minute increments while pacing around the room in psychic discomfort” - Torrey Peters (author, Detransition, Baby)
“A landmark in trans cinema, from its blisteringly uncomfortable first act to its bottomlessly miserable last.” - Gretchen Felker-Martin (author, Manhunt)
“May very well upend our notions of how trans film imagery can look and feel… and taste.” - Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Gardner (authors, Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness on Film)
“Watching Castration Movie got me so hyped for the future of film.” - Morgan M. Page (writer, Framing Agnes)
“Castration Movie is cinema, everything else is mere filmmaking!” - Theda Hammel (filmmaker, Stress Positions)
Event Venue
Visions Video, 183 Main Street, Northampton, United States
USD 12.51
