Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas

Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas

January 17–February 23, 2025

Last year’s wildly popular Masc film series returns with a fresh new installment, offering an opportunity to experience several rarely seen AFAB (assigned-female-at-birth) masc movies from around the world. Filmmaker Cheryl Dunye joins us in person for a rare screening of Stranger Inside (2001).

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  • Shusuke Kaneko: Summer Vacation 1999, 1988

  • Alfredo B. Crevenna: Muchachas de uniforme, 1951

  • Cheryl Dunye: Stranger Inside, 2001

  • Paul B. Preciado: Orlando, My Political Biography, 2023

  • Dee Rees: Pariah, 2011

  • Sérgio Toledo: Vera, 1986

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Past Films

  • Orlando, My Political Biography

    Paul B. Preciado
    France, 2023
    Friday, January 17 7:00 PM
    Jenni Olson, Susan Stryker, and Ellis Martin in Conversation

    This innovative “New Trans Cinema” essay film from trans philosopher Paul B. Preciado reflects on trans identity, culture, and history via Virginia Woolf’s gender-changing novel Orlando.

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  • Stranger Inside

    Cheryl Dunye
    United States, 2001

    Free Admission

    Sunday, January 19 5:00 PM
    Cheryl Dunye and Allegra Madsen in Conversation

    Yolanda Ross stars as a tough young butch in this terrific, rarely seen women’s prison drama from Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman).

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  • Vera

    Sérgio Toledo
    Brazil, 1986
    Wednesday, January 29 7:00 PM
    Jenni Olson, Julian Carter, and João Federici in Conversation

    One of the earliest portrayals in world cinema of a transmasculine character, a rarely seen Brazilian drama based on the life of the Brazilian trans poet Anderson Bigode Herzer.

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  • Pariah

    Dee Rees
    United States, 2011
    Thursday, February 6 7:00 PM
    Jenni Olson and Leila Weefur in Conversation

    A Black butch teen navigates her senior year of high school in this poignant coming-of-age drama from writer-director Dee Rees (Bessie, Mudbound).

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  • Summer Vacation 1999

    Shusuke Kaneko
    Japan, 1988

    35mm Archival Print

    Friday, February 14 7:00 PM
    Jenni Olson and Karen Nakamura in Conversation

    An ethereal Japanese melodrama with cult status about the shifting attractions between four boys (played by girls) at an isolated country school. Long unavailable, it is shown in a rare 35mm print.

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  • Something Special

    Paul Schneider
    United States, 1986

    35mm Archival Print

    Thursday, February 20 7:00 PM
    Jenni Olson and Maia Kobabe in Conversation

    Pamela Adlon (Better Things) stars in this long-unavailable, whimsical 1980s teen comedy about a girl whose wish to become a boy is fulfilled overnight.

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  • Muchachas de uniforme

    Alfredo B. Crevenna
    Mexico, 1951

    Filmoteca-UNAM’s Collection

    Sunday, February 23 7:00 PM
    Jenni Olson and Juana María Rodríguez in Conversation

    A rare Mexican girls school melodrama of a student in love with her teacher, a remake of the 1931 German film Mädchen in Uniform (considered to be the first lesbian film ever made).

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