"Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past," Machiavelli noted, and while "Framing Agnes" digs into the archives for a look at the lives of transgender people in post-WWII America, ...

Joynt takes audiences on a cinematic journey that blends fiction and nonfiction. He follows archival data found on Agnes, the pioneering trans woman who participated in Harold Garfinkel’s gender ...

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” but when it comes to experimental archival documentaries, just because something worked once doesn’t mean it will work again. In the burgeoning canon of queer and ...

When the world never stops questioning you, do you refuse to answer... or do you play along to get what you want? These questions are at the heart of Framing Agnes, an award-winning documentary about ...

"Quiet but decisive radicality." Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for Framing Agnes, an award-winning documentary that first premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

“Framing Agnes,” a hybrid narrative and documentary feature film that explores trans lives and history, has sold North American distribution rights to Kino Lorber. Directed by Chase Joynt, the film ...

You might assume in 2022 that information about our cultural heroes from the past would be readily available. After all, we carry the entire repository of human knowledge, or at least the potential ...

The docudrama “Framing Agnes” is a fascinating, multidimensional, mosaic-like glimpse at transgender life from the 1950s to today as interpreted by — and through — a group of transmasculine and ...

Framing Agnes, the title of Chase Joynt’s (No Ordinary Man) latest genre-queering film – world premiering in the Next section at this year’s Sundance – refers to a controversial trans woman who, in ...

Kino Lorber has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the Sundance prizewinner Framing Agnes (pictured), which it has slated for a December theatrical release. Directed by Chase Joynt and based on ...

Elegant performances are sadly overshadowed in a weighty survey of trans history that's more lecture than story. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” but when it comes to experimental archival ...