Trans Sex On Screen: Playing DoctorCLUB 18+86 min
Synopsis
Beginning as a spectacularly sensual Pride film programme in 2022, Trans Sex on Screen returns for a third year of celebrating trans life through intimacy, physicality and sexuality in film.
Putting the 'fun' in 'Ireland's fundamentally broken trans healthcare system', Trans Sex On Screen: Playing Doctor
focuses on the joy and pleasure of trans healthcare and surgery. Vaginoplasty romantic comedy, post-apocalyptic hormonal antics and tenderhearted docu-pornos come together in this short film programme spanning 36 years of trans sex on screen, culminating in a rare screening of the groundbreaking 1989 documentary Linda/Les and Annie.
Dilating for Maximum Results (dir. Nyala Moon, 2023, 14m)
It’s been four years since Dreya’s vaginoplasty… and it hasn’t been getting much use. Dreya decides to finally invite her online boyfriend over to hook up in person — but before he arrives, she must dilate for the first time since her surgery.
Her Pussy’s Debut (dir. Valerie Paige, 2020, 9m)
Valerie Paige’s vagina makes its cinematic debut in this tender post-op penetrative t4t scene, where Valerie loses her vaginal virginity to one of her favorite porn actresses, Shiri Allwood.
Boner Hospital (dir. Wren Tiffany, 2024, 7m)
Set in the fictional post-apocalyptic Boner City USA, this is the story of one trans guy and his appointment with destiny, by way of a scheming nurse and a tempting syringe of ‘boy juice’.
Mommy (dir. Manon Praline, 2024, 9m)
In a poetic testimony which the filmmaker dedicates “to all DIY Transfem networks”, Manon Praline shares a moving testimony of the challenges and joys she’s encountered in the six years since her bottom surgery.
Linda/Les and Annie (dir. Johnny Armstrong, Albert Jaccoma, Annie Sprinkle, 1989, 32m)
Focusing on trans man Les Nichols and his relationship to filmmaker Annie Sprinkle, including the intimate night Les and Annie tried out his new, surgically-constructed genitalia for the first time, this groundbreaking docu-drama billed as ‘the first female-to-male transsexual love story’ is sweet, sexy, romantic — and of course, educational.
Films will be preceded by an on-screen gallery of photos by Roo India Ford from her collections Medicalize Me and 10 Reasons Not To Date Roo Ford.
Programmed by James Hudson (GAZE LGBTQIA Film Festival, TITE Film Festival)