Film, Media & Entertainment
Do You Even Lift Bro? (T Muscles, Heists and Kinships)
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Full Program (TRT 100 mins)
Event schedule:
6:30pm - Doors Open
7:00pm - Introduction
7:15pm - Performance
7:30pm - Screening starts
8:45pm - Screening finishes
9:45pm - Bar closes
Film Access: Some films are subtitled in English, One film is spoken in French with English subtitles, there are minor references to transphobia
Venue: The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road), London SE11 4TH
Venue Access: wheelchair accessible, lift
**Due to this being a fundraiser we have added on the fee from eventbrite and we currently do not have any no cost tickets for this event due to it being a fundraiser however there will be ticket tier options. Thank you for your support.
Performer Bio:
Cairo Leon is a Caribbean–English trans performer working through body and voice, and image. His practice spans live performance, film, and spoken word, shaped by lived experience and a deep sense of authenticity. In 2018, he became the first openly transgender man featured in Muscle & Fitness UK, and in 2022 won Mr. Model, Mr. Model Pro, and Men’s Athletic Physique at Miami Pro and Pure Elite. His performances are intimate, physical, and immersive, exploring masculinity, presence, and becoming. Across stage and screen, Cairo centres trans embodiment, care, and storytelling as survival, transformation, and freedom.
@Cairo_Leon
Film Synopsis's:
Bodieless Thing • WET MESS • United Kingdom • 14 min
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy • Amy Gwatkin • United Kingdom • 2019 • 4 min
Featuring contributors to I,I,I,I,I,I,I, Kathy Acker, a major exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, director Amy Gwatkin presents a portrait of the literary luminary via Bhanu Kapil, Linda Stupart, and Carl Gent—some of the show’s contributing artists, writers and musicians. Gwatkin also invited artists Kasra Jalilipour, Noel Anderson, and Deniz Unal to feature in this film and channel the spirit of the creative iconoclast who died in 1997 at the age of 50 after battling cancer.
Hormonal • Maz Murray • United Kingdom • 2023 • 12 min
Young trans guy Gary catches eyes with brooding trans geezer Ian across the square of their Essex hometown, and unwittingly walks in to a testosterone heist plot...
Transgender criminal underclass small town bois take on roided Essex gym bro gangsters in this neo-noir crime caper flight of fancy.
Les Sports X-trem • Gio Ventura • France • 2023 • 19 min
Les Sports X-trem is a cinematic poem about muscle worship and boxing that uses sports training as an analogy for relationships that blur the line between friends and more than friends.
Outlaw • Alisa Lebow • United States • 1994 • 26 min
Leslie Feinberg, a self-identified "gender outlaw" who has spent much of zir life passing as a man, speaks with passion and intelligence about zir experiences in this film manifesto. Raw and confrontational, this film asks its audience to examine their assumptions about the "nature" of gender and calls for more sensitivity and awareness of the human rights and the dignity of transgendered people. Feinberg is the author of STONE BUTCH BLUES (Firebrand), an account of a working-class lesbian who passes as a man.
Unhung Heroes • Lazlo Pearlman • United States • 2002 • 13 min
Unhung Heroes is a comic fiction about five transgender guys who, after finding an internet article announcing the first actual penis transplants are about to be performed, imagine a scheme to come up with over a million dollars in surgery money.
Otherness Archive is an accessible online archive: providing an open-access library and freely available resource, featuring their first iteration - focusing on *trans moving-image, both contemporary and pre-existing work. This is a resource for our trans and queer community. After one year of cultivating research and an international call out, Otherness Archive launched in January 2023.
