Star Amerasu

A visual autobiographical poem by Star Amerasu, Outfest Fusion's resident artist.

A visual autobiographical poem by Star Amerasu, Outfest Fusion's resident artist.

At her first audition for a strip club, a young feminist meets three veteran dancers and discovers she has a lot to learn about what it means to choose to step out on that stage.

A four-part docuseries that pays homage to the legion of women pioneers in music who have stormed the stage, wielded their instruments, and sung the soundtrack of our lives. Celebrating women artists, in their own words, on power, fame, truth, defiance, artistic expression, hard-won success, and most importantly, the insights and tales behind their anthemic music.

Unable to move on from a breakup, Gabi, a queer Latina freelance editor, impulsively drops into an old job at an underground lap dance party, where she unexpectedly runs into a friend from her past.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Homage to the Akerman masterpiece Jeanne Dielman. Film by Roger Stack. Music by Star Amerasu.

Homage to the Akerman masterpiece Jeanne Dielman. Film by Roger Stack. Music by Star Amerasu.

Music by and starring Star Amerasu (as AH-MER-AH-SU). Film by Roger Stack.

Music by (as AH-MER-AH-SU) and starring Star Amerasu. Film by Roger Stack.

Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation.