Lingua Franca (2020) NR
Runtime: 1h 35m
Directed by: Isabel Sandoval
Starring: Isabel Sandoval, Eamon Farren, Lynn Cohen

Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation, works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in New York. When the man she's secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she's a trans woman.

Trans Film / Trans Space is an ongoing, community focused screening series highlighting trans cinema. Our programming is temporally promiscuous and genre-expansive, inclusive of contemporary and repertory film and video art across a variety of forms and perspectives. You can expect to see narrative features, documentaries, experimental shorts, hybrid works, and otherwise unclassifiable cinematic objects as part of the series.

The goal of Trans Film / Trans Space is not merely to create an environment for passive viewing, but to foster a space for conversation and communal engagement with trans film, i.e., to create a trans space at the cinema. Screenings will include post-film discussions and other expanded programming that supports this goal.

This talk will feature both artists discussing their individual practices and the upcoming one-day Bridging Acts performance — including process, preparation, challenges, and insights.

Related Events:

Performance Venue: UB Center for the Arts – Black Box Theatre
Saturday, July 25, 6:30–7:45 PM

Artist Talk #2 - AKG
Thursday, July 23 | 1:00–2:30 PM, Buffalo AKG Art Museum – Stanford and Judith Lipsey Auditorium

Featured artists: Alexandra Light (choreographer/dancer) and Clayton Colin (video artist/editor)

Artists Bios

Alexandra Light is a choreographer and dancer who integrates a ballet background into contemporary work that questions and redefines tradition. After over a decade as a Principal Dancer with Texas Ballet Theater, she is now focused exclusively on her choreographic practice. Her work has been commissioned by and created for Texas Ballet Theater, the Steps on Broadway Conservatory, Martha Graham Dance Company through a Texas Ballet Theater mainstage commission, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, and more. Her choreography has been presented at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Battery Dance Festival, and the Ailey Citigroup Theater, and developed through residencies including Jacob\'s Pillow and the Frank Lloyd Wright Martin House ...