Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Framing Agnes / a Level Ground production in association with Fae Pictures ; producers, Samantha Curley, Shant Joshi, Chase Joynt ; written by Chase Joynt, Morgan M. Page ; directed by Chase Joynt.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2023]

Description:

1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

The pseudonymous Agnes was a pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender health study conducted at UCLA in the 1960s. Her clever use of the study to gain access to gender-affirming healthcare led to her status as a fascinating and celebrated figure in trans history. In this innovative cinematic exercise that blends fiction and nonfiction, director Chase Joynt uses Agnes's story, along with others unearthed in long-shelved case files, to widen the frame through which trans history is viewed. Through a collaborative practice of reimagination, an all-star cast of trans performers, artists, and thinkers including Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, and Zackary Drucker, take on vividly rendered, impeccably vintage reenactments, bringing to life groundbreaking artifacts of trans history. This collective reclamation breaks down the myth of isolation among transgender history-makers, breathing new life into a lineage of collaborators and conspirators who have been forgotten for far too long.

Subjects:

Transgender people.

Gender nonconformity -- Case studies.

Transsexualism -- History.

Genre:

Nonfiction films.

Documentary films.

Other Author:

Joynt, Chase, 1981- film director, film producer, screenwriter.

Curley, Samantha, film producer.

Joshi, Shant, film producer.

Page, Morgan M., 1987- screenwriter.