During the pandemic, Dallas VideoFest (DVF) launched its Cinematic Conversations series. Each week DVF directs its members to watch a film that is available for viewing, then participate in a live conversation via zoom at an appointed date and time. The conversations are led by DVF Director Bart Weiss and a guest.

On September 2nd, DVF featured DISCLOSURE and welcomed director Sam Feder as the week’s guest. Watch the full conversation below:

Cinematic Conversations Sept 2nd Disclosure with Director Sam Feder DISCLOSURE with director Sam Feder is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, Mj Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton, and Chaz Bono, share their reactions and resistance to some of Hollywood’s most beloved moments. Grappling with films like A Florida Enchantment (1914), Dog Day Afternoon, The Crying Game, and Boys Don’t Cry, and with shows like The Jeffersons, The L-Word, and Pose, they trace a history that is at once dehumanizing, yet also evolving, complex, and sometimes humorous. What emerges is a fascinating story of dynamic interplay between trans representation on screen, society’s beliefs, and the reality of trans lives. Reframing familiar scenes and iconic characters in a new light, director Sam Feder invites viewers to confront unexamined assumptions and shows how what once captured the American imagination now elicit new feelings. Disclosure provokes a startling revolution in how we see and understand trans people. Sam Feder is a director and producer whose films explore the intersection of visibility and politics along the lines of race, class, and gender in trans lives.

Dallas Video Festival, or Dallas VideoFest is produced by the Video Association of Dallas — a non-profit organization dedicated to promotion and understanding of video as creative medium and cultural force in our society. Learn more at videofest.org.