Frances Arpaia

Birth : 1984-01-11, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

History

Frances Arpaia is a queer trans woman who lives in Brooklyn and makes weird films. She sort of has a masters degree in Screen Studies from Brooklyn College and occasionally works as researcher. Most of the time she is busy making her own films which explore everything from queer life in Brooklyn and the struggles of community and connection, to longform experimental works including feature-length performance pieces and videoart shitposts. Apparently people even watch them.

Profile

Movies

I put on the Glasses but still I could not see

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A science fiction video art odyssey about cruising and consumption in an augmented reality NYC.

2 Gurls 1 Jug

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"Don't dream it, be it..."

The Next Day and Tomorrow...

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Another generation of queer romance blossoms forth at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Luck Be a Lady Tonight

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Chance encounters on the longest night of the year.

Spooky NY t4t

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A Body Hack Halloween.

Fifty Two Short Films in a New York Minute

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For the City that Never Sleeps when she awakens from her long slumber. ❤

52 Short Films

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A cinematic sketchbook/journal. One(ish) film a week for one(ish) year.

Sissy Sorcery

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The ritualized performance of trans-feminine chaos magic by moonlight for the purpose of self-actualization and gender affirmation.

DIODEs

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...D ⇾⊢ s...

Disclosure

Researcher

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

Emma Durutti

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An experimental doc about Willem Van Spronsen aka Emma Durutti.

Transistors

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An augmented erotica that expresses a stark, visual sensuality contrasted by disassociative music.

ATALAYA I

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Atalaya was the winter home of the industrialist Archer Huntington and his wife, the sculptress, Anna. In all their years there, their children never came to visit. Today, its watchful eyes long closed, Atalaya stands as both a ruin, and a remembrance, of an age past.

FORM FILM

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The binary interplay of light and shadow as experienced through the sculpted form.

Splish Splash

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A transsexual pool party in the Hamptons.

Rooms

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The spatial realities of mental health.

New York Counterpoint

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A City Symphony.