A powerful and evocative experimental documentary about a young person’s conflict between the desire to transition, and passion for swimming on a women’s college team. Ambient sound (the tuning of a piano) builds with the emotional pitch of the storytelling, and serves as an aural template for an evocative editing style. Sequences of self-reflection are inter-cut with stunning underwater images of Calvin, a young transman in a “swimming suit.”
An almost silent film created in COVID isolation, this is a meditation on love and the inevitability of loss.
A poetic documentary that brings the viewer into the household of a Taiwanese mother and daughter who share an apartment, but express their own histories within different Tongzhi (LGBTQ) communities.
