Put the Brights On interviews four rural Transgender subjects from the Minnesota Lakes Region. The film works against common use portrayals of the rural and life in "the country" as quaint, cute, or dangerous and dumb, often with a sense of humor. Use of found footage, 16mm and Super 8 matched with the contemporary audio track give Put the Bright On a parallel low fi visual/hi fi audio contrast.

A non fiction short film focusing on the intersection of gender transition and racial difference.

For Nelie and Maria is a contact improvisation dance film with original choreography by Wes Staats and an original music score by George Todd. Three women start by playing paper/rocks/scissors and the game expands into an examination of the ability of siblings to use each other in movement and sound. -RR

A short film that pays homage to a photo album from the 1940s/50s/60s given to the director by a Great Uncle who was also a pre-Stonewall Gay Man. Combining a wide range of historical and archival material with a passionate look at photography itself, the film examines generational changes in one family by looking at the changes in GLBT presence.

13th Avenue Fargo Mine Cart was made driving down one big box store strip in the Midwest. Only conversation with a friend is redemptive.

Straightboy Lessons is an experimental documentary that reenacts a conversation, and a friendship, between a transitioning transman and a non-transsexual man.

AUGMENTED is an experimental non-fiction short, shot completely on 16mm, that analyzes the commonalities between medical augmentation and Transgender alignment. We are frightening because we're the future.

Third is an experimental narrative with a second life in its deeply layered soundtrack. Lit for night, and gelled for theatricality, Third looks at a trapped couple and their final release/demise.

Third is an experimental narrative with a second life in its deeply layered soundtrack. Lit for night, and gelled for theatricality, Third looks at a trapped couple and their final release/demise.

A short film that pays homage to a photo album from the 1940s/50s/60s given to the director by a Great Uncle who was also a pre-Stonewall Gay Man. Combining a wide range of historical and archival material with a passionate look at photography itself, the film examines generational changes in one family by looking at the changes in GLBT presence.