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Krissy Mahan

History

Krissy Mahan is a working class daughter, filmmaker, and artist. Over the past twenty years Mahan has developed a body of work exposing the absurdity of man-made barriers to human movement, happiness, and social access. Determined to create a world that is more fun for everyone, Mahan learned to make movies in the early 1990s and hasn’t stopped amusing herself since. Mahan’s screenplays distill social situations in a way that encourage the audience to follow specific humorous personal narratives and see their relationship to the whole. Before teaching in public elementary schools, Mahan was a professional Mx Fix-It, and certified Aging-In-Place Specialist (2011-) trained in modifying living spaces to be compliant with ADA standards. Mahan’s movies have screened at Anthology Film Archives as part of the inaugural New York City Feminist Film Week (NYC), the British Film Institute (London), Union Docs (Brooklyn), Tisch Film School at New York University with GenderReel, BFI’s “Queer Women In Love” program (various UK locations), Wotever DIY Film Festival (London), Scottish Queer International Film Fest (Glasgow), GAZE Film Festival (Dublin), Creative Quarters Folkstone, Kent (UK), Oska Bright program of Leeds Film Festival (UK), Women Over 50 Film Festival, Brighton (UK), the Austin Gay/Lesbian International Film Festival (US) and the Toronto Queer Film Festival, (Canada) . Academic Screenings: Stony Brook University, International Center For Photography (NYC), University College (London), and Kingston University (UK).

Movies

Mickey or Minnie

Mickey or Minnie

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A gender nonconforming person is policed by Minnie Mouse en route to the restroom.

Have You Ever Thought Why?

Have You Ever Thought Why?

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Filmmaker Krissy Mahan reflects on how people’s gaze on her has changed through the years, as she enters her late 50s. From curiosity to sympathy to pity to compassion, she can’t escape that most strangers look at her nonconforming body through a largely negative lens.

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When a gender non-conforming person's mother moves into a nursing home, revelations occur but COVID-19 thwarts a reunion.

My Crazy Boxers

My Crazy Boxers

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Suicidal – or just a working class queer caught in the wrong underpants? Pixellated fragments slowly materialise in this video based on actual meetings with hospital staff while in a psychiatric hospital system.

Four Billion Reasons

Four Billion Reasons

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A journey of 8 meters becomes an epic odyssey, thanks to the inaccessibility of the New York City subway system.

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A working class, gender non-conforming woman in the 1960s leaves a legacy for her butch dyke grand niece. This is a humanizing narrative made 100% by one queer older woman, which highlights intersectional identities that complicate discourses of sex, gender, and class.

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This short film is a parody of Todd Haynes’ 2015 film “Carol,” that presents a hilarious and necessary class analysis, with better sex.

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"The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot" - Audre Lorde. In this action-packed animation thriller, CampbellX and So Mayer find and replace film posters promoting movies by white straight dudes about white straight dudes. The (finger puppet) protagonists gleefully complete their quest in the tube, and on the streets of London, to an original song by the QWOC punk band, Big Joanie.

Faggotgirl Gets Busy in the Bathroom

Faggotgirl Gets Busy in the Bathroom

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This short is a playful and sexy romp (no dialogue) through the bars of Philadelphia's "gayborhood" to explore if the bars are wheelchair accessible, and if they have gender-neutral bathrooms. That sounds technical, (and the film does include accurate information about accessibility standards), but it stars Faggotgirl, a butch dyke super-hero action figure. This short is affirming of transgender/GNC people and people with diverse mobility methods.

The Genesis of Butch and Femme

The Genesis of Butch and Femme

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A queer re-telling of the famous creation myth, enacted by a lusty lezzie couple. With cameo appearance by Morgan Freeman, sent by God to save them from their decisions (as usual).

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In 1987, a young working-class Butch dyke makes friends, has sex, plays softball, and learns about life in a gay resort town (Provincetown, MA), with the AIDS crisis always around.