"Becoming"
Becoming Gillian
For many years, I kept a side shave, because it helped me look on the outside as I felt on the inside. I've grown it out now, but I've also done a lot of work to accept and embrace my nonbinary identity. This film is an expression of this act of becoming.
Who Am I Becoming?
A self-portrait of actor Payton Royce as he looks back on his life from childhood to his transition. Royce's own video diaries alongside home movies and interviews with family offer a glimpse into the life of a man who uses his voice to speak his truth and support others in celebrating who they are.
The Domination of the Becoming
Angels fall from the heavens. They then turn into Vampires. Only one man can save the world as we know it. 'The Domination of the Becoming is an explosively campy contemporary vision of ancient 'End of Days' mythology - - - with Vampires.
Becoming: Bradley Theodore
Two years ago, artist Bradley Theodore didn't know how to paint. He was also suffering through some of the darkest moments of his life. This story is a testament to how one's life can be turned around through sheer dedication to self-teaching and self-promotion.
Becoming Blond
Sebastian works for the lazy combo of frienemies Rosetta (Reno) and Professor Morey (Mink Stole) translating dead romance languages. He lives with his roommate Ida, a cyber-chick agoraphobic nudist who realizes Hippo, a Boy George look-alike she's only ever met online. Ida's Aunt Gertrude, misunderstanding their BFF relationship, wills the house to..
Becoming Jesse Tate
Jesse Tate is a vivacious thirteen year-old girl trying to cope with life while keeping a family secret. She struggles to be part of the "in crowd" and the weird new feeling that boys really aren't that dumb. It's a lot for anyone to handle. Now, the secret threatens her friendships and family. She must search for the things that are really importa..
Becoming Ithaca
This visual poem is the continuation of a piece performed live at the Civil Disobedience queer festival, 2020, in Athens. The theme of the year was borders, nationalism, identities, tourism and immigration. The ‘Becoming Ithaca’ performance was comprised of three parts. The islander who dresses up in national costume to attract tourists. The so..
Becoming Geppetto
Surrounded by farmland in a small town in northern Wisconsin, father and son luthier duo, Bruce and Matt Petros make world-renowned acoustic guitars. These guitars have been played around the world by music giants like Paul Simon, and this documentary showcases the quiet lives that create some of the most skillfully handcrafted instruments availabl..
Becoming Julia
In this intimate and personal portrait, we follow Paul, a single, straight bus driver of 37, as he undergoes a gender transition to begin living as a woman called Julia. Filmed over a two year period, this documentary explores the stereotypes about what makes a man and what makes a woman.
Becoming Octopus
Instead of an optical way of looking, a haptic looking is suggested by Laura U. Marks, the camera functions as an eye, also touches. The Octopus, a shape-shifter, a soft and moist malleable being, an embodiment of the erotics, a shortsighted sea-creature who knows the world mostly through touching, through muscular intelligence, an embodied cogniti..
Becoming Colleen
Starting her life as Colin, a husband, father, policeman, film-projectionist and self-declared shoe fetishist, Colleen and her wife Heather's love transcended their gender roles. But what are the medical complications that can arise from transitioning later in life? Ian Thomson's Becoming Colleen examines the role of gender, about society's own tra..
Becoming Grim
Libby finds herself in the unlikely situation of being dead, and after a meeting with The Grim Reaper, she finds out that being dead is only the half of it.
On Becoming a Man
On the occasion of his 21st birthday, Paul Wong walks southwest from his mother’s house at St. Catherines St. to the Quebec St. home of Kenneth Fletcher. Most remarkable about this video is not its careful camera work (shot entirely from a moving vehicle), but the driving that allowed for it – a feat that brings to mind the complementary (and c..
Becoming Plant
Becoming Plant follows six dancers who participate in a therapeutic group experiment with psychedelics, while temporarily ‘living’ together on the demilitarised industrial site. While they are subjected to the plant’s consciousness and to each other’s presence, they perform a choreography, aligning their naked bodies with each other and wit..
Kiran Over Mongolia- Becoming an Eagle Master
Kuma, a young Kazak man, retraces the steps of his grandfather who was formerly eagle master back to the remote mountainous region of his family's origin. There, in extreme western Mongolia, he fulfills his dream of trapping and training his own eagle. Under the tutelage of a local eagle master named Khairatkhan, Kuma learns not only the ways of hu..
Leo: Becoming a Trans Man
Born a girl, 15-year-old Leo makes the irreversible choice to take testosterone in his quest to become a man.
Becoming Otto
A portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence with unbridled abandon.
Becoming One
What's the link between connectivity and individuality?
Becoming Black Lawyers
When these five Black lawyers set out on their journeys to receive a professional legal education, they did not realize that they would have to struggle against additional daily battles even more challenging than the rigors of learning the law in a hypercompetitive environment. They discover the paradox of studying in an institution that idealistic..
