TILDE: GAY24 Presents TRANS DOMESTICITY

Screenings Guest Curated by Jini Maxwell & Samantha Eckhardt

At TILDE in 2024, GAY24 are hosting the international premiere of Henry Hanson’s DOG MOVIE; a film about a tenderqueer couple whose eternal couch surfer who seems immune to their passive-aggressive insinuations that it might be time for her to find a new place – until they adopt a dog that shares the couch-surfer’s name, and chaos ensues. Our feature is preceded by two shorts, which similarly shine an irreverent light on the domestic spaces that trans people carve out for themselves. The first is Xanthra Phillippa and Mirha Soleil-Ross’ iconic GENDER TROUBLEMAKERS (1993), wherein the artists interview each other about the joy of t4t love & how they relate to the broader queer community. The second, also by Hanson, is BROS BEFORE (2022), a comedy about two trans guys who heterosexually jerk off to porn together – until one of them gets a girlfriend, shifting the balance in their friendship. This is a program to make trans people laugh and wince, as we celebrate how chaotic, how embarrassing, how passive aggressive and how utterly essential we are to each other – tofu scrambles and all. These films contain nudity and adult language.

Bros Before
Australian Premiere
USA, 2022, 19 mins, Comedy, Dir. Henry Hanson, Unclassified, Captioned
Billy and Elijah are two trans bros who just happen to enjoy jerking off together – in a straight way. But when Billy starts dating a woman, Elijah must come to terms with his feelings for Billy and his own burgeoning homosexuality.

Gendertroublemakers
USA, 1993, 20 mins, Documentary
Dir. Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra MacKay
What happens when two Transdykes get sick of non-transsexual’s uninformed representation of their sexualities and their lives? They grab their 8 millimetre home video camera, their last 200 bucks, and come up with an uncompromising in-your-face flick about their shitty relationships with gay men and their unabashed attraction to other transsexual women.

Dog Movie
International Premiere
USA, 2024, 55 mins, Comedy, Dir. Henry Hanson, Unclassified, [[captions being added]]
A passive-aggressive tenderqueer couple sends their household into a quiet tailspin when they adopt an elderly dog with the same name as the unemployed couch surfer they just can’t seem to confront.