Boston- Trans Shorts playing today

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Sat, May 20, 4:30 pm
The 22nd Annual Boston Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Remis Auditorium Co-presented by the Theater Offensive
Transgender Shorts Program

Transgender Shorts Program: Gender Crash by Marguerite Bergel and Matt McLaughlin (2006, 6 min., video), a work-in-progress documenting more than five years of Boston’s only queer/transgender/gender queer open mic; Boquita by Carmen Oquendo-Villar and Richard E. Ruiz (2005, 10 min., video), which presents a day in the life portrait of a transgender performer from the Dominican Republic who now resides in Jamaica Plain; Moustache by Vicki Sugars (2004, 14 min., video), a story that teaches sometimes it doesn’t pay to change your true self for the person you love; Jaywalking by Leigh Iacobuca and Kathy Hnang (2005, 9 min., video), a brief look at the inspirations, motivations, and implications of drag king performance; Secret Picnic by Philipe Lonestar (2004, 10 min., video), in which our gender-queer protagonists transform their violent pasts at a joyous afternoon picnic; Give or Take and Inch by Lee Friedlander (2002, 14 min., video), the story of a woman (Amanda Bearse) who must adjust when her lesbian sister announces she’s going to have a sex change; and With What Shall I Wash by Maria Trenor (Spain, 2003, 10 min., video), an animated short.
Copresented by GenderCrash, the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, and Truth Serum Productions
Tickets: MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $10.