“Weard is painting a complex picture with a lo-fi brush, using the idiomatic candor of the home movie image to construct a highly charged simulacrum of our current political, social, and sexual reality, and of trans people’s place in it.”
—Screen Slate
“You think you’re ready for this, and you might be. Another piece of cinema lightning.”
—Brunswick Underground Film Festival
CASTRATION MOVIE is a multi-part postmodern epic by visionary auteur Louise Weard. CHAPTER III. JUNIOR GHOSTS—PREMORPHIC DRIFT; A FRAGMENTARY PASSAGE is a standalone installment that consists of one chapter.
In CHAPTER III. JUNIOR GHOSTS — PREMORPHIC DRIFT, Izzy (Avalon Fast, director of CAMP) does everything in her power to stop her partner (Henri Gillespi) from transitioning.
Featuring a special Q&A with filmmaker Louise Heard, moderated by queer film historian, filmmaker, and Queer Cinema: Lost & Found programmer Elizabeth Purchell.
