Louise Weard, Canada, 2026, 126 min (with built-in intermission)
Castration Movie is a multi-part postmodern epic by visionary auteur Louise Weard. In Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift, Izzy (Avalon Fast) seeks out everything in her power to stop her partner (Henri Gillespi) from transitioning.
Selected Reviews for Castration Movie Anthology i. and ii.:
"Rejects conventional wisdom around representational politics, form or even what a movie is." - Sight and Sound
“As daring and revolutionary an indie film as any crafted this decade.” - William Bibbiani, The Wrap
“Castration Movie mixes Cassavetes-level rawness, a dazed Warholian languor and quotable banter worthy of Kevin Smith… With its scenes of unsimulated sex, water-sports, self-harm and the graphic aftermath of surgery, Castration Movie’s list of trigger warnings is longer than some films’ scripts.” - Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian
“Castration Movie holds the shimmering promise of what cinema can be now, when multiplex fare has entered its moribund final act and fascism is tightening its grip on dissent, free expression, and the rights of the vulnerable. Great films about real things made on the margins are evermore essential, and this is a great film.” - Chris Shields, Screen Slate
“It's so painful and good that I can only bear to watch it in like, fifteen minute increments while pacing around the room in psychic discomfort” - Torrey Peters (author, Detransition, Baby)
“A landmark in trans cinema, from its blisteringly uncomfortable first act to its bottomlessly miserable last.” - Gretchen Felker-Martin (author, Manhunt)
“May very well upend our notions of how trans film imagery can look and feel… and taste.” - Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Gardner (authors, Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness on Film)
“Watching Castration Movie got me so hyped for the future of film.” - Morgan M. Page (writer, Framing Agnes)
“Castration Movie is cinema, everything else is mere filmmaking!” - Theda Hammel (filmmaker, Stress Positions)
Winner of the 2025 Frameline Audience Award