Somebody's Watching Me (Shorts Block)

Since GAZE’s founding in 1992, queer life has drastically transformed from the unspoken to the hypervisible. This block collects historical perspectives on the colonial camera, new visions of video self-portraits, and thrilling narratives of supernatural stalkers to ask: What does it mean to be queer and trans in 2026, when nearly nothing is private, everyone is witnessed, and everything is recorded? 

bailey.banshee

A trans content creator leaves America for the greener grass of Ireland – but something has followed her across the ocean. Something that might never let her go.

Director: Jack Warren / Ireland / 8m

Writer: Jack Warren

Producer: Jack Warren

My Structuralist Film

In a confessional-cum-guided meditation, filmmaker Angelo Madsen questions how thoroughly a trans body should need to be visible, and on what terms trans filmmakers are obligated to perform visibility for an audience.

Angelo Madsen / USA / 6m

Equator Song

Drawing inspiration from the imperial 1896 German Colonial Exhibition, where 106 people from Africa and Oceania were displayed as living exhibits, this film transforms the machinery of photographic representation into an act of defiance – a cinematic hymn to those who refused to be captured.

Melina Florencia Pafundi Miranda / Argentina, Germany / 15m

Writer: Melina Florencia Pafundi Miranda

Producer: Melina Florencia Pafundi Miranda

How to Find a Career that Loves You Back

When two trans women are chosen as company representatives for a career fair, the trip ignites a fragile romance and budding doubts about their work for a defense-technology corporation.

Ethernet Wang / USA / 25m

Writer: Ethernet Wang, Ember Streshinsky

Producer: Ethernet Wang

ROAD RUNNER

A meditation on moving incognegro through the world as a Black person of Trans experience; a portrait of what it means to honor ourselves now, in motion, before the world catches up.

Yaz Josiah / USA / 17m

Writer: Yaz Josiah

Producer: Yaz Josiah

Method Cowboy

After lying about his sexuality to land the lead role in a gay film, a struggling actor begins surveilling and mimicking the gay men around him, blurring the lines between reality and performance.

Carlos Valdivia / USA / 13m

Writer: Carlos Valdivia 

Producer: Julia Kennelly, Karine Benzaria, Lucy Rennick

Wherever You Are

Two teens in a secret relationship are finally able to explore intimacy on a romantic lakeside camping trip, but they can’t stop spotting a presence in the darkness: looming, watching, judging, ready to swallow them whole.

Ryan Michael Hoskins / 18m / USA

Writer: Ryan Michael Hoskins

Producer: Daniel Greenstreet, Ryan Michael Hoskins

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