FRAMING AGNES
Framing Agnes
Agnes, the pioneering, pseudonymized, transgender woman who participated in Harold Garfinkel’s gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s, has long stood as a figurehead of trans history. In this rigorous cinematic exercise that blends fiction and nonfiction, director Chase Joynt explores where and how her platform has become a pigeonhole. Framing Agnes endeavors to […]
Opening Night Film: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS + Opening Night Party
Opening Night Film: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS + Opening Night Party
Tickets to Unidentified Objects include access to the Opening Night Party that takes place following the film. Peter is a flamboyant, misanthropic dwarf hiding from the world in his shabby New York City apartment. But an unexpected visit from his upbeat—and possibly unhinged—neighbor Winona forces him out of his shell and onto an impromptu road […]
Long Live My Happy Head
Gordon is a Scottish comic book artist with a big bushy beard, very expressive eyebrows – oh, and an inoperable, incurable brain tumour. By making autobiographical comics about his experience, he is able to communicate his thoughts and reactions to cancer in a medium and a language that is disarming, accessible and inviting. Approaching his […]
PAT ROCCO DARED
Pat Rocco Dared
It started with a cavalcade of nude muscle hunks before it hit the streets in protest! With playful films like Sex and the Single Gay and Ron and Chuck in Disneyland Discovery, filmmaker and entertainer Pat Rocco’s gay erotica made a splash in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, with Playboy dubbing him the “King of the Nudies.” Soon after, […]
Utah LGBTQIA Shorts Program
Celebrate Utah stories and home-grown filmmakers in this local short film program. Each short film will include a video introduction from the filmmaker. Films in the program include: Church and the Fourth Estate by Brian Knappenberger When a reporter uncovers a file that reveals a shocking series of child-abuse allegations in Idaho’s Boy Scouts, the […]
Utah LGBTQIA Shorts Program
Fresh Faces Panel
Join the directors of the World and North American Premiere titles as they launch their films at Damn These Heels. Hear these emerging talents speak to their process, their works, and to the futures of their film and filmmaking.Confirmed Panelists include: Stephen Lance, director of Torch Song; Joey Massa, director of Talk Soon; Meredith Morran, […]
