The feature film “Framing Agnes” — which will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival — is widening the lens through which transgender history is viewed. - NBCOUT
After Garfinkel’s death in 2011, a sociologist in Newburyport, Massachusetts, was given all of Garfinkel’s case files, and Joynt and Schilt began visiting the archive repeatedly to help organize its contents. They eventually found the entirety of Agnes’ case files, which included recordings and transcripts of her conversations with Garfinkel, as well as the case studies of other individuals who didn’t make it into the research.
The cast includes Zackary Drucker , Jen Richards, Max Wolf Valerio, Silas Howard, Stephen Ira Cohen, Angelica Ross and Brian Michael Smith. Joynt, himself, plays a version of the journalist Mike Wallace while using Garfinkel’s line of questioning.Fae Pictures Through his communally driven excavation of Garfinkel’s research, Joynt has chipped away at the long-running misconception that transgender trailblazers only existed in isolation, instead showing that these communities have been navigating the world together long before the word “trans” was used in popular culture. “Isolation was, in fact, a narrative produced and patrolled by medicine and the media,” he wrote in his director’s statement.
Throughout the 75-minute film, Joynt explores the complicated relationship between visibility and vulnerability, because society has equated the notion of a “good trans life” with publicity, even when there are other folks who have chosen to stay invisible and the leaders of the community — particularly Black trans women — are arguably the most vulnerable.
While the representation of trans and gender-nonconforming communities in mainstream media has dramatically improved in the last decade, Joynt recognizes that “Framing Agnes” — which he has called “an extraordinary labor of love” — arrives at a time when anti-trans rhetoric and legislation continues to make headlines around the world.
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