Film Screening and Panel: Framing Agnes

The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center present a screening of the award-winning Framing Agnes (2022) followed by a discussion with director Chase Joynt and historian Jules Gill-Peterson.

Agnes, the pioneering, pseudonymized, transgender woman who participated in Harold Garfinkel’s gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s, has long stood as a figurehead of trans history. Through a collaborative practice of reimagination, an impressive lineup of trans stars take on vividly rendered, impeccably vintage reenactments, bringing to life case files from a 1950s gender clinic and other groundbreaking artifacts of trans healthcare. Framing Agnes endeavors to widen the frame through which trans history is viewed—one that has remained too narrow to capture the multiplicity of experiences eclipsed by Agnes’.

This event is part of the Tabb Center’s spring 2023 Curating Archives series.

Closed captioning will be provided for this screening.

 

This program is free. Registration is required.

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Schedule

6 p.m. – Check-in

6:30 p.m. – Film begins

7:45 p.m. – Film ends; panel discussion and Q&A begin

8:30 p.m. – Program ends

Participants

Chase Joynt, Director

Chase Joynt is a director and writer whose films have won more than 25 jury and audience awards internationally. His latest documentary feature, Framing Agnes, premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival where it won the NEXT Innovator Award and the NEXT Audience Award. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man, a feature doc about the transmasculine jazz musician, Billy Tipton. Joynt is the author of two books: the Lambda Literary Award Finalist You Only Live Twice (co-authored with Mike Hoolboom) and Boys Don’t Cry with Morgan M Page.

Jules Gill-Peterson, Cast

Jules Gill–Peterson (she/her) is a writer, historian, and author of the Lambda Literary Award–winning book, Histories of the Transgender Child. Her work on trans culture and politics has also been published or featured in The New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, and NPR. She is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University.

Joseph Plaster, Moderator

Joseph Plaster is a public humanities scholar, oral historian, and director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin.

Image: Framing Agnes still. Courtesy Kino Lorber.