JMars Storm Rucker

Dissecting the different perspectives of how the unconscious mind finds healing through nostalgia and connection to the inner child. I am wondering what nostalgia feels like for black trans folk/black folks who are oftentimes robbed of childhood. The inspiration of this stemmed from the medicalization of gender dysphoria by the ADA. This bred me to interact with the question of the intimate why’s behind this incongruence between sex and gender, whether gender dysphoria was inherent to transness, and analyze history and how America medicalizes black people. I wondered about our black indigenous understandings of gender pre colonization and western ideals. I interviewed multiple people asking questions about how they reclaimed their narratives through vintage and nostalgic aesthetic. This experimental documentary-film ultimately examines the technology of black liberation and healing of trauma through vintage fashion, vintage aesthetics, and the romanization of nostalgia to create afro-futuristic utopias.

THE NEW SCREEN FEST

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