Movies about trans people made by trans people are in short supply if you only browse the multiplex movie menu. Dig into the indie scene, though, and you’ll find the real deal meals – such as director Louise Weard’s ultra outsider project Castration Movie. Anthology i. The Fear of Having No One to Hold at the End of the World dropped in June 2024, but if you didn’t catch the tale of trans sex worker Michaela “Traps” Sinclair during the Kickstarter campaign, you’re in luck this week. AFS hosts Weard and programmer Elizabeth Purchell for a screening of the film, which Weard says she made to “deliver a trans story by us, for us, and about us.” Double up your HRT dose by catching Part II, screening Sept. 22-23 at Hyperreal Film Club with Purchell and Weard in attendance. – James Scott
