A unique slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling madly in love. Over the course of one year, the artist couple Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh gathered photographs from real-life events such as their first kiss, meeting each other’s parents, long-distance thirst traps, a beach wedding, and top surgery and its subsequent recovery. A sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love with life and art all tangled up.
You can’t get what you want but you can get me
- Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
- Netherlands
- 2024
- 13 mins
- Sat Jan 25
- 10:00 AM
- Showplace
- In-Person Only
An intimate slideshow chronicling how two trans masculine artists fall madly in love.
- English
- No Captions
- LGBTQI2SA+, Health/Mental Health and Ability
About the Filmmaker
- @suck_my_disc and @zthebug
- Filmmaker: Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
- Writer: Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
- Producer: Samira Elagoz, Dansco
- Key Cast: Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
Samira Elagoz is a Finnish/Egyptian transmasculine artist. He has toured in various international film, visual art, and performance contexts, and won several awards, including Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale Teatro in 2022. His films have premiered at IDFA and IFFR. In 2017 he was nominated for best international film at CPH:DOX. Elagoz combines performance art and film, creating his unique brand of “docu-fiction”.
Z Walsh is a Brooklyn-based transmasculine artist focusing on photography. Z is known for his raw, intimate depictions of his subjects and himself. He has produced and photographed unique campaigns for brands such as Milk Makeup and Calvin Klein and photographed many renowned artists like trans icon McKenzie Wark. Throughout his work, Z is dedicated to elevating trans voices and combating transmasculine erasure.