My 2007 camp extravaganza Trans-Neptune (or The Fall of Pandora, Drag Queen Cosmonaut) joins a host of other queer transgressions on the verge, Frameline Distribution’s new cult shorts DVD collection. You can ORDER ONLINE if you’re into drugged-cross-dressing-sci-fi-melodrama.
(Carmel Amit in the Gas Den)
I’m so fond of this short, the first project I tackled after film school. We shot in the fall of 2005, mostly in the basement of a house I had rented with some friends, many of whom appear in the film. We got the footage in the can for less than 2k in cash. The BC Arts Council provided postproduction funding to help us finish it.
(Drag in Space: Ryan Steele, Dusty Hagerüd, Patti Wotherspoon, Nelson Wong)
The film was called “a Rocky Horror opium dream” (Frameline 31 Guide) and picked up the Gerry Brunet Memorial Award for Best Short by a BC Filmmaker at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival in 2007. The jury cited the film for its “interplanetary ambition and imagination.”
(Carmel Amit, Rodrigo Gonzalez as The Scientists)
Even though I think you can still catch a shortened version of Trans-Neptune on Logo Channel from time to time in their “alien bootcamp” shorts package, I can’t help but recommend the unedited DVD version.
(All photography by Santiago Yanez – 2005. Property of Anachronism Pictures.)
