Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Life of Sunshine (A)
  • I Have Never Been Here
  • Armani and the Birth of Italian Fashion
  • Cyclone
  • Let Us Be
  • Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
  • 7 Questions
  • Hetero
  • Tristán and the future
  • Life is Yours
  • Hadestown: The Musical
  • Dad on Arrival
  • Since We've No Place to Go
  • Nena
  • Hijamat
  • Song for Eresha (A)
  • Free Fall: Who you are
  • Phoebe
  • Red Light
  • Meet Me at the Club
  • Chris & Martina: The Final Set
  • Dreamboi
  • Shelter
  • When the Mind's Free
  • Stronger Together
  • Are You Afraid of the '90s?
  • Liminal
  • Four Girls
  • Possible Days - Trilogy on Tenderness
  • Rita Moreira: chronicles, memories and videotape
  • Me Niego Rotundamente
  • Lo Noy
  • Bombacha
  • Amor Trava
  • Man I Love (The)
  • Loves Company
  • Our Colors Never Fade
  • Mayflies
  • Tracy & Martina: Goin' Out West
  • Test
Trans Short

CGiii Rating

Seen at...

  • Edinburgh International Film Festival

Public Rating

Beside the Water, 1999-2004

Country: USA, Language: English, 12 mins

Trans Short | 2018
  • Director: Finn Paul

CGiii Comment

Have some dignity!

Who wants to watch a trans*man masturbate? Not us!

Apart from the gross indecency...a totally soporific film.

Trailer...

Trailer: beside the water, 1999-2004 from Finn Paul on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Still photographs of desert landscapes and trans bodies interact in this essay film to tell a story of isolation, intimacy, and trauma within an American trans masculine community of the early 2000's. Beside the water, proposes an alternative mode of retrieving and disseminating a trans past through familial relations and the erotic. Piecing together evidences of a past via an individuals mementos, this work places trans sexual experiences in conversation with a non-linear idea of history, that is both real and fabricated, defiantly looking towards a future of pleasure, beauty, sincerity, and fantasy.