2021
TRT 17min

Production format: 16mm, s8

Put the Brights On combines 16mm, s8, archival footage, and interviews with four Trans people who choose to live outside the city. Shot and recorded in "Greater Minnesota" but applicable to the nationwide urban/rural divide.

Put the Brights On was funded through a McKnight Foundation Fellowship with the Lake Region Arts Council

Camera/Interviews/Edit: Raymond Rea
Sound Design/Music: Purest Spiritual Pigs
Archival Footage: The Prelinger Archives
Titles: Mono No Aware

Interviews with:
Johanna Stately
Lucid Thomas
Karl Sisu
Jan Syverson

Selected Screenings:

Inside Out, Toronto, Canada
Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, CO
Outfest, Los Angeles LGBTQ Festival, LA, CA
Translations, Seattle Transgender Festival, Seattle, WA
San Francisco Transgender Film Festival
Wicked Queer, Boston, MA
Trans Stellar, Detroit, MI
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
Reel Q, Pittsburgh, PA
Indie LINCS, Lincoln, England
Inland Cinema, Mills Folly, Madison, WI
Frozen River Film Festival, Winona, MN
Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND
FM LGBT Film Festival, Fargo, ND
Stray Cat Cinema, Kansas City, MO
Rourke Museum Pride Exhibit, Moorhead, MN
WNDX Festival of the Moving Image, Winnipeg, CANADA