CASTRATION MOVIE ANTHOLOGY I. and II. are two of the highest rated films of 2025 on Letterboxd — and both are coming to its new TVOD platform later this month.

Louise Weard talks to Chris Shields about crafting the "Castration Movie" series: "So I said, fuck this tourist gaze we’re going to instead create a new gaze from scratch." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-new-cinematic-language-for-trans-life/

This month at @ifccenter.bsky.social, CRUISING THE MOVIES honors the recently departed Rosa von Praunheim with his masterpiece I AM MY OWN WOMAN--one of the few trans biopics to truly feel as radical and as original as its subject. Join @schlockvalue.bsky.social and me as we celebrate an all-timer.

This is the ideal week to put out a new zine. So I did. It's about phony deaths and real nostalgia, and real deaths and phony nostalgia, and David Gest and Tyra Banks. You should read it. Subscribe if you like it. Become a paid supporter if you love it and want me to do more. TYSM ILU HNY XOXO.

RIP Rosa von Praunheim, truly one of the best to ever do it. A brilliant provocateur, an artist of the highest order, forever eager to mash genres, someone who wanted more and better for queer people, someone not afraid to stand against the tide and be proven right again and again. Thank you. ♥️

R.I.P. Rosa von Praunheim, truly one of the great queer filmmakers whose work is more urgent and timely than ever

when MUSCLE BEACH PARTY winds up being one of the most beautiful looking prints you’ve ever seen…

Now available for North American theatrical bookings for the first time ever: Hisayasu Satô’s classic early 90s pink films AN ARIA ON GAZES (aka THE BEDROOM) and LOVE - ZERO = INFINITY. Both newly restored by Pink Line!

SEX DEMON is tonight at 8:30! Intro by programmers @schlockvalue.bsky.social and @kjshepherd.bsky.social. Paired with a special gay erotic trailer reel assembled by the Cruising the Movies team.

Only a few more days of Monika Treut at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social — I love these films and it’s been such an honor to help finally get them back into distribution…

Only a few more days of Monika Treut at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social — I love these films and it’s been such an honor to help finally get them back into distribution…

Runs through Sunday at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social! Tonight: SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN and DIDN’T DO IT FOR LOVE Tomorrow: VIRGIN MACHINE, FEMALE MISBEHAVIOR, MY FATHER IS COMING Sunday: GENDERNAUTS, GENDERATION, DIDN’T DO IT FOR LOVE

@kjshepherd.bsky.social and I are back at @ifccenter.bsky.social the week after next with SEX DEMON and a special reel of newly-digitized super rare gay xxx trailers 😈 www.ifccenter.com/films/sex-de...

Going to be in Chicago next week to show Muscle's new restoration of Ken Camp's gay horror video art feature HIGHWAY HYPNOSIS (and some other surprises) at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social and Pink Line's 2K restoration of Hisayasu Sato's RE-WIND at the Davis (w/ Oscarbate). Hope folks can make it out!

The second part of Louise Weard's epic comes to The Forum THIS SUNDAY with @seattletransfilmfest.org ! CASTRATION MOVIE ANTHOLOGY ii: THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS trades slice-of-life sensibilities for a world of chaos that can be described as "trans AFTER HOURS on speed."

kind of obsessed with the cast profiles on the original GENDERNAUTS DVD

Very nice interview I did with the estimable @schlockvalue.bsky.social for Screen Slate on Ed Wood, in advance of my NYC launch. www.screenslate.com/articles/pan...

The weeklong Monika Treut retrospective at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social opens today! I’m super proud to be able to help bring these iconic films back into North American distribution — I think they’ll be a big discovery for people, so hope folks will come check some of them out.

Tomorrow night at Alamo Brooklyn: the new 2K restoration of Hisayasu Satō’s masterpiece RE-WIND (aka CELLULOID NIGHTMARES), presented by filmmaker Heather Landsman. Still some tickets left: drafthouse.com/nyc/event/we...

just a couple of tickets left for Wes Craven’s porno movie in 35mm tonight — with post-film virtual Q&A with star Eric Edwards

And coming to London's Nickel Cinema next week on 16th Oct. @thenickelcinema.bsky.social thenickel.co.uk

Tomorrow night at Alamo Brooklyn: the new 2K restoration of Hisayasu Satō’s masterpiece RE-WIND (aka CELLULOID NIGHTMARES), presented by filmmaker Heather Landsman. Still some tickets left: drafthouse.com/nyc/event/we...

Wes Craven... or, er "Abe Snake's" adult film THE FIREWORKS WOMAN is up next in SKIN DEEP, a film series exploring the peaks, valleys and crevices (sorry) of adult film history Screening on 35mm Tuesday at Nitehawk Williamsburg with an intro by programmer @schlockvalue.bsky.social

Here’s our new trailer for FEMALE MISBEHAVIOR: THE FILMS OF MONIKA TREUT, which opens in New York at @anthologyfilmarchives on October 11th before expanding to other cities over the coming months. More info: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

Monika Treut came to my undergrad college and did a workshop with the school's one filmmaking class and we were... absolutely not ready for anything she had on offer. A filmmaker who operates on her own frequency. Look for VIRGIN MACHINE.

@muscledistribution.bsky.social’s new packaged Monika Treut retrospective opens at Anthology Film Archives in NYC next Saturday! I’m so proud to be helping to get these films back out in North America again, and I really REALLY hope folks make it out to see them.

Admittedly had never heard of Monika Treut before Liz showed me this trailer for the program and, based purely on this, I am now kind of obsessed and need to see them all.

thanks to everyone who came out last night 😌

found my fav prop from Ken Camp’s AS THE WORLD BURNS at his house yesterday

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We're showcasing trans films and flmmakers at Northwest Film Forum Oct 16-19 2025! Thank you @nwfilmforum.bsky.social, Seattle Trans Film Union, all of the amazing filmmakers, and @defsharp.bsky.social for allowing us to use their song "to get older". nwfilmforum.org seattletransfilmfest.org

working with Ken Camp to get both his and his best friend Jim Baker’s (BLONDE DEATH) work back out into the world again has been some of the most fulfilling work I’ve ever done — hope folks can make it out to see some truly astonishing films and videos

Genre filmmakers—this one’s for you. Transgender Film Center and Duplass Brothers Productions are proud to announce the Found Footage Feature Fund. Thank you, @markduplass.bsky.social. ❤️ Applications will open on Oct. 23. Submissions close on Nov. 7 and a grantee will be selected in December.

in a hotel room in downtown Austin making some totally normal DCPs 🙂

Now available for North American theatrical bookings from Muscle: gorgeous new 2K restorations of key early works from notorious pink film legend Hisayasu Satô, including RE-WIND (aka CELLULOID NIGHTMARES), LOVE LETTER IN THE SAND, and LUSTMORD (later remade as SPLATTER: NAKED BLOOD).

you know castration movie is in the cultural firmament bc people are leaving long irrelevant letterboxd reviews trying desperately to showcase their wit

thanks austin

We’re unbelievably thrilled to say that we’ve recently acquired North American rights for seven films by German filmmaker Monika Treut — they open at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social on Oct. 11th before expanding to other cities in the coming months! Tickets: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

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Another television flashback in advance of the world premiere of our new restoration of Doris Wishman’s DILDO HEAVEN at Fantastic Fest tomorrow morning — this time from her appearance on a 1998 episode of HBO’s Real Sex, directed by Barry Shils.

NYC is the only place in the world where you can go see a Paul Morrissey movie and then randomly meet the person who throws the baby out of the window in BAD in the lobby afterwards

Our new restoration of Doris Wishman’s last-completed feature, DILDO HEAVEN (2002), has its world premiere this Sunday at Fantastic Fest in Austin! In the meantime, let’s flash back to this moment in television history…

I know things are tight all over, but it's really wild that Liz doesn't have a full time gig. Film and video people, let Liz help you out!

Hi, just a reminder that I’m still very actively looking for stable work — any leads, etc. appreciated. www.elizabethpurchell.com

is @weard.moe’s CASTRATION MOVIE ANTHOLOGY II. the feel-bad movie of the year? find out tonight... watch.eventive.org/matchboxcine...

I’m curious…. what’s the most trans women that’ve ever been in a single film before?

Join us tonite for Castration Movie 2! Huge thank you to @matchboxcine.bsky.social for pulling together this online premiere on short notice after I announced the date on a whim.