By Hook or By Crook

Be gay be trans do crime

dselwyns

The mixture of gentle companionship with the rough edges of a harsh world creates a sense of doom, a sense that nothing good will ever happen, a sense that forces so much bigger than these beautiful gender-bent survivors demand their failure, their agony, their turmoil in…

Sally Jane Black

beautiful. the movie that invented “be gay and do crimes” LA! don’t miss the restoration screening at vidiots, Q&A with Silas Howard and Harry Dodge moderated by me

Vera Drew

a cowpunk stream of consciousness ultra lo-fi work of surreal buddy-comedy cinema centered around and created by transmasc/nonbinary friends. there's nothing else like it, and there probably never will be. i feel compelled to get gushy and personal talking about this…

fade

the power of queer cinema is that it can be totally incompetent on every level, just horrendously written, filmed, edited, and performed, and still feel like a revelation. the more i sit with this the more i like that it's a weird meandering thing beyond category. the…

bailey

it’s like the non binary transmasc version of the living end and my own private idaho A quote from J. Halberstam's In A Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives: “By Hook or by Crook actually manages to tell a queer story that is more than a queer story…

jackie

This should have a way more prominent place in the new queer cinema canon, the slacker canon, and the scammer canon

mdfmdf

so intimate and goofy... i love the queer americana &the midwestern blue collar transmasc agenda

yane

be gay, drink tequila, and play with toy shark grabbers.

noa <3