Two films, one radical question: who gets to own our stories? Todd Haynes' Poison reimagines queer desire through three interwoven tales, while Vera Drew's The People's Joker hijacks the Batman universe for a trans coming-of-age satire that had to be crowdfunded to exist. Together they ask how image-making can steal back power from the culture that made us.
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New Queer Cinema x Trans New Weird: Who Owns Our Image?
Two films, one radical question: who gets to own our stories? Todd Haynes' Poison reimagines queer desire through three interwoven tales, while Vera Drew's The People's Joker hijacks the Batman universe for a trans coming-of-age satire that had to be crowdfunded to exist. Together they ask how image-making can steal back power from the culture that made us.
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