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 2011 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.
SCREENINGS
- 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)
- Premiered at MIX NYC Experimental Queer Film Festival (2011)
lullololli by Nica Ross (2009; 9 minutes)
I played Dorothy Gayle in a Coney Island scene from surrender dorothy, or Something With a Little Poison in It. Screened at MIX NYC Experimental Queer Film Fest (2009)
young, Jewish & left
In 2006, I was included in the documentary film “Young, Jewish & Left” by Irit Reinheimer & Michael Konnie Chameides. A celebration of diversity, Young Jewish and Left weaves queer culture, Jewish Arab history, secular Yiddishkeit, anti-racist analysis, and religious/spiritual traditions into a multi-layered tapestry of Leftist politics. Personal experiences from many of today’s leading Jewish activists reframe the possibilities of Jewish identity. It presents a fresh and constructive take on race, spirituality, Zionism, queerness, resistance, justice, and liberation.
“As E. Nepon, a Philadelphia activist and organizer of the 2003 queer anti-imperialist Purim cabaret Suck My Treyf Gender, explains, ‘We’re doing this work not in spite of, but because of being Jewish. Our Jewish culture is about resistance to tyranny, and I want to celebrate that, beyond calling out my people as oppressors. I want to be able to call out the super-powerful and beautiful things about the culture that I come from.'”
Review by Dan Berger, Left Turn Magzine
EZRA BERKLEY NEPON 