‘Dog Movie’ & ‘Dreams of Sunlight Through Trees’: Screening + Q&A

Our New Trans Cinemas series continues with two pared-down and deeply personal works exploring the uncertainties, discomforts and joys of trans quotidian life and relationships.

In Dreams of Sunlight Through Trees (2024), middle-aged Theo documents life after starting hormones, as ongoing news headlines continue to underline and undermine trans rights.

In Henry Hanson’s delightfully awkward comedy, Dog Movie (2023), a passive-aggressive tenderqueer couple sends their household into a quiet tailspin when they adopt an elderly dog with the same name as the unemployed couch surfer they just can’t seem to confront.

Doors open: 6pm
Screenings begin: 6:15pm

This event will include a pre-recorded Q&A with filmmaker and artist Theo Jean Cuthand.

Theo Jean Cuthand was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1978, and grew up in Saskatoon. Since 1995 he has been making short experimental narrative videos and films about sexuality, madness, Queer identity and love, and Indigeneity, which have screened in festivals internationally. He is a trans man who uses He/Him pronouns. He is of Plains Cree and Scots descent, a member of Little Pine First Nation, and currently resides in Toronto, Canada. He is currently Indigenous-Artist-In-Residence at Western University.

Screening as part of the New Trans Cinemas mini-program at the University of Melbourne. Keep an eye for future events as part of this series.