Finn Grey Paul is a California-based experimental filmmaker, photographer and curator whose work explores trans sexual expression and desires.
“The reason for me it’s so important to show trans sexual expression and desires- there was a current representation happening in the mainstream and it was missing an agency and empowerment of trans desires.”
“The reason for me it’s so important to show trans sexual expression and desires- there was a current representation happening in the mainstream and it was missing an agency and empowerment of trans desires.”
Sissy Screens Photo Editor Parker Blain interviewed Finn when he was a guest of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, curating the shorts series ‘Desires and Resistance | Unearthing Trans Legacies’. The series premiered at Outfest 2018 and includes his own film beside the water, 1999-2003.
In this video essay, the artist as narrator deftly mixes up sexual discovery, community formation and desert landscapes in a collection of erotic snapshots.
“I was grappling with being part of a culture with very little visual evidence of a past. What does it mean to be part of a culture which doesn’t have much (visual) examples of our history or proof that we existed?”
