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No Ordinary Man

From Monday, October 18th, 2021 to Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
Details
Canada | 2021 | 86 min | English
Category
2021 VT International Film Festival
Film Type
Documentary
Cost
Early Bird: $10/$5; During Festival: $12/$6; Virtual: $12

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Director
Aisling Chin-Yee & Chase Joynt
Source
Oscilloscope
Sponsors
Patricia Fontaine, co-sponsor Consulate General of Canada in Boston

Also showing:
Fri, Oct 15 | 7:15 pm | BB
Sun, Oct 17 | 4:15 pm | BB

Tickets are on sale now for Members and Pass purchasers and will be on sale to individual ticket purchasers at 10am, Wednesday, September 29.

A fascinating meta portrait of pianist Billy Tipton, a transgender man who died in 1989, as told by transmasculine actors and thinkers. Chin-Yee and Joynt’s creative coup is their framing device, in which a group of (wonderfully eloquent) transmasculine actors — mostly white but not entirely — “audition” for a role in the documentary, playing Tipton at crucial junctures of his life. Those scenes are woven together with interviews with several trans artists and writers, and footage of how the talk shows of that era handled Tipton’s death and gender discovery.