at a 10 AM press screening. The film circles the story of Owen , a shy boy growing up in dreary suburbia who finds solace and companionship through a, introduced to him by an older confidante, the brooding Maddie . As the pair find themselves increasingly enthralled by the show’s strange magic, they also find themselves trapped in its creeping limbo.
, it's a film that I wrote while going through some really intense things. It's the film that I wrote very early in my physical transition, and while dealing with the fallout of the immediate catastrophe that is your life when you come out. By the time I made the film, two years after I wrote it, I was in such a different place. And I was in this early honeymoon phase with my new identity.
The movie is a reflection on growing up in the suburbs as a queer person and searching for spaces that feel like home. I think that's a complex experience. Even if that place is a TV show that you're watching, that's still a corporate product. Even if it's feeding you some sort of magical queer-coded signal, it's not necessarily liberatory. But itI thought of the movie as all about finding places to hide before you're ready to come out of the closet.
To then take that narrative beyond that, towards a more traditionally cathartic, Hollywood, trans kind of narrative, like,would be so disrespectful to my lived experience. You get to the beginning of transition, where there is already so much damage that has already been done, and then the work becomes healing. That's how I like to think of transition, I don't so much use the word “transition” in my own understanding of my own gender exploration.
I think it certainly will, as will the soundtrack. I can't remember the last time there was a soundtrack that I wanted to listen to in my day-to-day like this.
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