Presented by: Exposure
Edmonton
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Monday, November 17, 2008
(7:00PM)
This event is proudly sponsored by GayCalgary®!
Location:
Metro Cinema, Zeidler Hall
Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave
Edmonton
Summary:
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Details:
$10 each or buy an all-day Sunday pass for $30 and get Monday free. Metro pass holders welcome.
director Gwen Haworth in attendance.
Using archival family footage, interviews, phone messages, and animation, Haworth's documentary She's a Boy I Knew begins in 2000 with Steven Haworth's decision to come out to his family about his life-long female gender identity. The resulting auto-ethnography is not only an exploration into the filmmaker's process of transition from biological male to female, from Steven to Gwen, but also an emotionally charged account of the individual experiences, struggles, and stakes that her two sisters, mother, father, best friend and wife brought to Gwen's transition.
Screening with Fissures. Canada 1999, 2 mins, director: Louise Bourque. A film about forgetting and remembering, about past presences and the traces they leave. In making this piece, Bourque literally distorted the personal home movie images appearing on the film plane through various manipulations in the process of doing her own low-tech contact printing. The images warp and fluctuate, creating a distorted space of fleeting apparitions, like re-surfacing memories. The footage was hand-processed and solarized as well as hand-coloured through toning. Question and answer period to follow with director Gwen Haworth.
Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, Gwen Haworth is a transgender filmmaker, editor, and instructor. After graduating with a degree in psychology in 1995, Gwen went on to complete undergraduate and graduate degrees in film production at the University of British Columbia. She has trained as a director's intern with the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and served as a programmer and board member for Out On Screen, which holds Vancouver's Queer Film & Video Festival.
Between 2000 and 2004, Gwen came out as transsexual to her friends and family and transitioned genders from male to female. During this process, she became painfully aware of the media's marginalized depictions of trans individuals, often as victims of discrimination and violence or objects of fetish. In She's A Boy I Knew, Haworth turns the camera on her own family, capturing an intimate, complex, and emotionally ground-breaking account of their journeys through this experience.
In partnership with Metro Cinema.
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