The vitals:
9:30 ~ Doors
10:00 ~ Castration Movie, Part II — Premiere with Director Louise Weard and programmer Elizabeth Purchell
Runtime: 300 minutes

“This is what the girls do for each other.”

Cast: 

Alex Walton (Pomp and Circumstance), Ivy Wolk (Anora), Lea Rose Sebastianis (In a Violent Nature), Hesse Deni (Brain Death), Jack Haven (I Saw the TV Glow), Alexandra McVicker (The Serpent’s Skin), Betsey Brown (Actors), Jamilah Sandoto, Isobel Ward, Eve Wacs, Hazel Norwood, Zoë Blanco, Alexandria Corwin, Theda Hammel (Stress Positions), Peter Vack (www.RachelOrmont.com), Avalon Fast (Honeycomb), Agnes Walsh, Felix Biederman, Will Menaker, Elizabeth Purchell, Willem Helf, Michelle Gold

Music by: 

Ravine Angel, DOOR EATER, Uboa, Nedezuga, and Alex Walton

Synopsis:
Castration Movie is a labyrinthine post-modern epic about gender. A trans woman named Michaela “Traps” Sinclair (filmmaker Louise Weard) is a sex worker in Vancouver who splits her time between seeing clients and hanging out with her group of trans friends. As the weight of the world piles up on her she decides to reclaim some sense of control by seeking out a back-alley orchiectomy.

The second part of Castration Movie (running 300 minutes with an intermission) contains one chapter: 

In Chapter iii. Polygon!!!! Heartmoder, Circle (Alex Walton) tries to leave a trans separatist cult in New York. 

Selected Reviews for Castration Movie Anthology i.:

“As daring and revolutionary an indie film as any crafted this decade.” - William Bibbiani, The Wrap

“Castration Movie mixes Cassavetes-level rawness, a dazed Warholian languor and quotable banter worthy of Kevin Smith… With its scenes of unsimulated sex, water-sports, self-harm and the graphic aftermath of surgery, Castration Movie’s list of trigger warnings is longer than some films’ scripts.” - Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian

“Castration Movie holds the shimmering promise of what cinema can be now, when multiplex fare has entered its moribund final act and fascism is tightening its grip on dissent, free expression, and the rights of the vulnerable. Great films about real things made on the margins are evermore essential, and this is a great film.” - Chris Sheilds, Screen Slate

“It's so painful and good that I can only bear to watch it in like, fifteen minute increments while pacing around the room in psychic discomfort” - Torrey Peters (author, Detransition, Baby)

“A landmark in trans cinema, from its blisteringly uncomfortable first act to its bottomlessly miserable last.” - Gretchen Felker-Martin (author, Manhunt)

“May very well upend our notions of how trans film imagery can look and feel… and taste.” - Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Gardner (authors, Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness on Film)

“Watching Castration Movie got me so hyped for the future of film.” - Morgan M. Page (writer, Framing Agnes)

“Castration Movie is cinema, everything else is mere filmmaking!” - Theda Hammel (filmmaker, Stress Positions)

Director Bio:
Louise Weard is a director with a degree in Film Semiotics. She is responsible for the films Computer Hearts and Castration Movie.

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