Please note that masks are required for this event and will be available at the box office.

Connection | Isolation

dir. G. Chesler

2024 // 1hr 25 mins // Digital Projection // English

Participants: Mickaela “Micky B.” Bradford, JD Davids, Bakpak Durden, Dan Kingsley, Kirin Queer Wave, Gabriel San Emeterio, Dani Taylor, Cole Wolf

In an airborne pandemic when separation, isolation, and self-sufficiency became the punishing norm, many trans people faced the COVID-19 era differently. Connection|Isolation presents eight portraits of trans, post-gender, and genderqueer people who share their experiences of cultivating community in this pandemic. These trans community creators foreground how Asian Americans face escalating violent racism during the pandemic, how Black Americans and allies rose in opposition to white supremacist police-state violence in 2020, and the exclusion disabled people feel from a society that—despite grave and massive loss—refuses basic protections.

In addition to screening the film, director G. Chesler will be present for a post screening Q&A!