LITTLE ORPHAN GENDER REVOLUTIONARY ANNIE
(2011; 13:17 MINUTES)

Annie is stuck in the rotten gender-binary girls’ orphanage system, dreaming of a place where they could thrive. “Tomorrow, tomorrow, I’m changing tomorrow… I’m not just a girl or gay!” sings Annie. This song-cycle performance is based on a play written by Dr. Kate Sorensen and Killer Sideburns and performed at Idapalooza Fruit Jam in 2004. The video features four toy theater stages created by Dr. Kate Sorensen, green-screen video magic by Niknaz Tavakolian, and Killer Sideburns as a miniature broadway star.

The video premiered at the MIX NYC Experimental Queer Film Festival in 2011 and screened in film fests and other events in NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Amsterdam, and Hamburg.

Screenings included Gender Odyssey, “Gender Revolutionaries: Non-binary Film Shorts” (2014); Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, “Ursula Genderbender” (2013); Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, “Transcendental – Trans Shorts” (2013); Periwinkle Presents: Bye Bye Binary; a night of musicals, misadventures, and animated escapades, San Francisco. (2013); Craftivism:The Gathering @ Le Petit Versailles NYC (2013); Translations/Seattle Transgender Film Festival “Gender Revolutionaries: Short Films.” (2013); Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival: Transcreen. “To See & Be Seen” (2013); San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. “GOT MONSTERS?” (2012); London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; “Because We’re Worth It” (2012); Goddard College (2012); Great Small Works’ Spaghetti Dinner, NYC (2011).