featuring a live performance by the legendary SF band Lipstick Conspiracy

At the time it was made (spanning 2006-2009), Angelo Madsen Minax’s Riot Acts was one of few films about trans people that was also made by trans people, and created with one specific goal in mind: to combat mainstream images of isolation and destitution, to demonstrate that the journey within a trans experience isn’t always one of tragedy, but one of creativity and joy. Documenting the multi-faceted lives of transgender and gender variant musicians, Riot Acts takes the shape of a lo-fi road movie-come-concert video to suggest that identities and bodies are undeniably political.—Angelo Madsen Minax
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