MAGGOTS AND MEN

July 21, 2024
Olympia Film Society and Olympia Timberland Library present:
Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: A Trans Film Fest
Maggots and Men
3:30pm doors / 4pm film
$13 GA & $10 OFS and Olympia Timberland Library Cardholders
Cary Cronenwett’s Maggots and Men was a multi-year undertaking of D.I.Y. cinema that dramatizes the real-life 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion by casting trans men as the group of leftwing anarchist sailors rebelling against Lenin and the Soviet Union. Through making the film in black & white and adopting silent film-style aesthetics, the film serves as both a beautiful, anachronistic, subversive presentation of trans masculine bodies and also a sobering reminder of the struggles for liberation against the state. (Caden Mark Gardner)
Dir: Cary Cronenwett / 2009 / US / 53 min

SCREENING: SUN 7/21 4PM

Tickets are available at the box office 30 minutes before showtimes.