The People’s Joker, 2022
Dir. Vera Drew

Programmed by Julie

Language: English
Runtime: 92 min
Format: 35mm

Welcome to the underbelly of Gotham, where comedy is illegal and fascism is enforced by a rich groomer in a bat suit.

Built on a parody of DC lore deep cuts, and a hybrid visual texture of live-action and animation, trans film maker Vera Drew gives us a hot take on what a trans coming-of-age story could look like with her first feature film debut.

Co-written, directed and starring Drew as Joker the Harlequin, she creates a fantastical world of gender evolution that contrasts brutal othering through a delicious spectacle of anti-comedy, queer visualizations that mirror a discordant slurry of abandonment, misogyny and self-medicating survival. Reminding us that the trans experience is not linear and its undying resistance gives us a most honest reason to smile.

SHOWTIMES

Friday, January 16
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Saturday, January 17
6 pm & 8:30 pm

Sunday, January 18
3 pm

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