Documentaries from Frameline 34, week 2
Published 06/24/2010
by David Lamble
http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=769Some choices from documentaries screening in Frameline 34:
Lost in the Crowd In Susi Graf's beautifully lensed, heartbreakingly candid portrait of a handful of queer runaways barely making it on the streets of Manhattan, a trans-identified biological boy from Utah stands out. A self-confessed "freak" who traded the sheltered life of a rich sissy-kid for the hand-to-mouth existence of a part-time sex worker, and who alternates tricks with episodes of petty theft, Kimy is remarkably grounded and brutally honest. He muses about a sex change paid for by work as a fashion designer, but by the end of our visit, the graceful, longhaired teen with Native American features has used three years of street life to redefine his goals. Completing a truck-driving course (his instructor says he'd be a model driver if he could just control his road rage), Kimy has rethought his desire for a gender makeover.
