Transgender Visibility Collection
Less brawny but just as tireless are the players in Jane M. Wagner’s Break the Game, an innovative film constructed from excerpts from a vast accumulation of livestream recordings on the gaming website Twitch. Our hero is Narcissa Wright, a onetime champion now facing onslaughts of online transphobia. Hoping to set a record on a popular new game, Narcissa becomes a recluse and then an anxious wreck. What emerges is an internecine tug of war between body and mind, and between the urges to stand out and fit in. The film — Wagner’s first — is extremely multimedia, which is to say, extremely Tribeca. But more profoundly, the documentary probes the intriguing possibility of taking images meant for one space and repurposing them into a cogent beginning, middle and end. Put another way: Even without the pixelated bells and whistles, it’s excellent storytelling.
Eschewing formal production techniques as well as any dominant-culture framing, Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Curi translates the energy of the Amazon into a work of nonfiction that serves as a conduit for the feelings of indigenous people [...] The best moments connect visually, almost as living paintings. Decked out in colored contact lenses and stunning handcrafted costumes, Uýra engages in a variety of performances.
Two South African friends born intersex change what we think about being male or female.