1hr 39 mins // Digital Projection

Between your head in the clouds and the depths of your nightmares. Under the skin and beyond imagination. Anything is possible when you enter The Midnight Realm.

Program:

Chloe and Jame // dir. Drew Burnett Gregory // 2023 // 7 minsTwo transfeminine people confront their personal history and the histories that shaped them.

The melting creatures // dir. Diego Céspedes // 2022 // 17 mins

Nataly, a trans woman, is visiting her former lover Leon with her daughter Secreto in a mysterious reclusive community hiding from the Sun. These reunions will bring back the memory of a toxic and abusive relationship to Nataly.

SMOOTH // dir. Sepand (Sepi) Mashiahof // 2023 // 20 mins

SMOOTH is a body horror film about body hair, depicting a raw and vulnerable portrait of how abject an experience it is for those who struggle to conform to the aesthetic demands of a binary cis-normative society. As we follow our lead through a dreadful night of dysphoric turbulence, together we learn a language of queer refusal, autonomy, and transcendence as she quells her corporeal anguish through a bloody escape from her skin.

In the Lost and Found // dir. August Broussard // 2023 // 6 mins

In the aftermath of losing his father and best friend very suddenly, Jude struggles to salvage what remains of his life from what he can see, and can't.

SLEIGH // dir. Stella Alfjar // 2023 // 15 mins

In the sinister world of "SLEIGH," a group of queer artists must navigate a haunting trope of ambition and sacrifice, where success and fame come at a chilling cost. As their lives intertwine, they delve into a treacherous journey of dark rituals and moral dilemmas, blurring the lines between their artistic desires and self-destruction.

Dragonfly // dir. Willow Skye-Biggs // 2023 // 36 mins

A mysterious woman arrives at a remote home.

Stray Cat Film Center is excited to serve as a satellite screening location for TRANSlations, a Seattle-based film festival screening works by and about trans persons!