Disclosure: Trans Lives On Screen
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Disclosure, originally subtitled Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen, is a 2020 American documentary film directed and produced by Sam Feder. The film follows an in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of their stories on transgender lives and American culture. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2020. It was released on Netflix on June 19, 2020.
The film follows an in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of their stories on transgender lives and American culture. It features many famous transgender people in the film industry such as, Laverne Cox, Susan Stryker, Alexandra Billings, Jamie Clayton, Chaz Bono, Alexandra Grey, Yance Ford, Trace Lysette, Jazzmun, Michaela JaƩ Rodriguez, Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Elliot Fletcher, Brian Michael Smith, Sandra Caldwell, Candis Cayne,Jessica Crockett, Zackary Drucker, Lilly Wachowski, Ser Anzoategui, Michael D. Cohen, Zeke Smith, and Leo Sheng. It takes the audience through a history lesson using films and television shows to show how damaging and inaccurate the depiction and ideas of transgender people were displayed throughout, mostly, American cinema. Some of these examples used include Ace Ventura, Bosom Buddies, Tootsie, Victor Victoria, To Kill a Mockingbird, and much more. Disclosure provides a direct conversation between transgender people and Hollywood by showcasing both sides of the conversation with direct examples in film history.
This is a moving, fascinating, important, and wide-ranging look at the lives of trans people. Often the smart and animated interviewees offer startling insights that take us in unexpected directions, linking racism, feminism, misogyny, and masculine stereotyping, especially underscoring the difficulties historically facing trans people of color. The filmmakers dug up silent film examples dating to 1901 of mocking, condescending attitudes toward trans people, demonstrating long-standing stereotypes of Black males as violent and uncontrollable. And although activists appreciate the positive publicity and information that came out of I Am Cait, a television show about Caitlin's Jenner's coming out, some noted that Jenner's experience is atypical -- \"very white, very privileged.\"
The most fascinating question asked here, though, is: what if we never saw ourselves on screen at all Disclosure suggests that, for all its pitfalls, trans representation does more good than bad, and the struggle to improve it has been, and will continue to be, worthwhile.
Most of our media consumption happens passively, as we unwind from our busy lives by watching our favorite movies or television series. Because we are passive in our consumption, we forget to think critically about the fact that many of the images we see come from creative teams lacking diversity, often catering to older white, heterosexual, cisgendered, people of the world. Due to that lack of creative diversity, and the inability for queer, trans, and people of color to tell their own stories, what we see is frequently riddled with inaccuracy, stereotypes, and harmful jokes that hurt marginalized communities. These negative associations created by the content we consume, colors our perspective of people in real life, and makes people from those communities feel othered.
Director Sam Feder grapples with the legacy and representation of transgender actors and characters onscreen in Hollywood. While these depictions have been overwhelmingly negative and lacking in a nuanced understanding of trans identity, the reality of American anxieties surrounding gender are explicitly conveyed through these depictions. Featuring interviews with Laverne Cox, Lily Wachowski and Yance Ford among other trans thinkers and creatives, Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen chronicles a difficult legacy of trans characters in the industry, while also pointing to a more fruitful future for trans actors and representation on screen. Editor Stacy Goldate speaks about the use of archival footage, the layering of interviewed subjects and how the film has impacted her own feelings of being represented on screen.
Disclosure is a spectacular visual history of transgender people on film. Crafted with obvious love, Feder beautifully guides the audience through the many pitfalls transgender people have faced along the road to representation. People looking to understand trans perspectives will find much to enjoy in listening to the ways that film has shaped our lives.
Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen is an unprecedented, groundbreaking look at the depiction of transgender people and experiences throughout the history of film and television. Over 100 years of footage, from A Florida Enchantment (1914) to Pose (2018), is woven together with the personal stories of prominent media figures like Laverne Cox, revealing how Hollywood has simultaneously reflected and manufactured our deepest anxieties about gender. Through the specific lens of trans representation on screen, Disclosure shows both the consequences of depicting marginalized communities without their participation, and the liberatory potential of the medium when their voices are centered.
The discussion following the screening of the documentary gave all attendees a time to share their thoughts and experiences with representations of trans people in the media. Questions and comments about the film were welcome, allowing participants to apply the information from the film to their own lives and draw from their own experiences.
This documentary featured interviews solely of trans and queer people, which is something we rarely get to see onscreen. Interviewees included Laverne Cox, Jen Richards, Alexandra Billings, Brian Michael Smith, Jamie Clayton, Candis Cayne, Trace Lysette, and many more wonderful people. At the very beginning, the core issue pertaining to the documentary was addressed: the more trans people are visible in society, are represented in the media, the more violence they face. This is a complex issue, but one reason for this is that we have so much history and oppression to unpack, as a society, and because we have not unpacked it or even begun to unpack it, in some cases, the most vulnerable communities will be targeted for our lack of understanding and compassion.
A few other issues the documentary discusses are depictions of trans women as sex workers (yes, there are trans women who are sex workers in real life, but the reasons usually have to do with facing discrimination in housing and job opportunities; without this context, it simply appears that all trans women are sex workers for some innate reason); the transgender victim narrative (so many trans characters end up murdered or dead from a medical issue relating to their trans identity); the erasure of black trans women in the gay rights movement (whitewashing history); the focus on surgery in the media (talkshow hosts constantly asking trans guests about their body parts); and the disgust of trans bodies onscreen (cis characters barfing and retching when they find out someone that they were attracted to is trans), among many other issues.
I am so grateful that this documentary exists. It is so needed. When you watch clip after clip taken from shows and movies over the last hundred years, you can see just how pervasive and harmful transphobia is. The only thing I wish was discussed more was non-binary people and characters, and gender variance in general. But I know that historically, depictions of transness were always so rooted in the gender binary and non-binary characters onscreen are very recent. This documentary is expertly crafted and shines a light on trans artists, their experiences, and their demands for justice for trans people everywhere. I cannot recommend it enough. 59ce067264