Film
An Evening with Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel
- 7PM
On the occasion of the New York premiere of their new collaboration Happy Birthday, Marsha!—about legendary transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson—this program brings together a selection of quietly radical short films by Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel, which offer moving considerations of queer and trans identities both past and present.
Post-screening Q&A with Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel
Dir. Sasha Wortzel
2018, 7min, work-in-progress
A poetic meditation on the Florida Everglades’ fugitive past, present, and future inspired by the writings of feminist environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
Dir. Sasha Wortzel
2011, 5min
A home shared for forty years becomes a museum of memories for the partner who remains in this ruminative consideration of love and loss.
Dir. Tourmaline
2017, 3min
In this animated short, legendary black trans activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy describes her philosophy of resistance.
Dir. Tourmaline
2017, 7min
Inspired by the eponymous poem by Lucille Clifton, this striking experimental work evokes the memories and experiences of performer Egyptt LaBejia in a wash of entrancing, neon-saturated images.
Dirs. Felix Endara and Sasha Wortzel
2014, 10min
A fond look back at Clit Club, a lesbian nightclub and bastion for queer sexual expression in the then-gritty Meatpacking District of the early 1990s.
Dirs. Tourmaline & Sasha Wortzel
2018, 13min
New York Premiere
A portrait of iconic transgender artist and activist Marsha “Pay it No Mind” Johnson in the hours before she ignited the 1969 Stonewall Riots.
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A timely look at black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s bold 1972 presidential campaign.
A galvanizing look at the rise and persecution of revolutionary icon Angela Davis.
Wim Wenders’ ecstatic tribute to visionary choreographer Pina Bausch.