IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Holland – November 2019 (International Premier)
Edinburgh International Film Festival- June 2019 (UK Premier)
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI – March 2019
OUTFEST, Los Angeles, CA – July 2018 (US Premier)
HDVideo, 12 minutes
In this video essay, the narrator mixes together sexual discovery, community formation and desert landscapes in a collection of erotic snapshots. Looking towards a future of pleasure, sincerity, and beauty; it places trans sexual expression in conversation with a non-linear idea of history, that is both real and invented, to address how limited evidence of a past shapes our understandings of the present.
SCREENINGS
Frameline, ANTIMATTER, SQIFF: Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Mardi Gras Film Festival Sydney, Vilnius LGBT Festival Lithunia, Pink Screens Film Festival Brussels, TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival, PROUD! Denmark, Transmission Sonoma County, Notions of A Buddy Film: ATA (San Francisco) and the Echo Park Film Center(Los Angeles)
A narrative portrait and a staged document of the counter-cultural and off-the-grid banality of a friendship formed out of a marginalized community.
HDVideo
12 minutes
Completed August 2015
SCREENINGS
Outfest, Athens International Film Festival, SF Transgender Film Festival, Transient West Hollywood
HDVideo
9 Minutes
Completed: May 2013
Community and isolation, love and heartbreak, friendship and family; an autobiographical film essay.
SCREENINGS
Northside Film Festival, Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Echo Park Film Center, The Queerer They Come, Harry Hays Conference, Trans Ocular
HDVideo
7 Minutes
Video by Finn Paul
Text by Roy Pérez
A Video Adaptation of the poem, Things We Both Know (Not Our Real Names) by Roy Pérez. An early version of “Things We Both Know (Not Our Real Names)” appeared in birdsong zine. The version used for this film was published in FENCE Magazine #25 (14:1-2).
SCREENINGS
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival
HD Video
13 Minutes
Completed: 2011
SCREENINGS
MixNYC
Performance and HDVideo
8 minutes
Completed: 2010
by Lacy Davis and Finn Paul
Using video and performance, untold secrets shared to an audience.
SCREENINGS
RedCat
HDVideo
7 minutes
Completed May 2014
Staring: Anne Cousineau and Laub
Black and White Archival Prints
Various Sizes
To see the entire series: finngpaul@gmail.com
EXHIBITIONS
Corner Gallery, Portland Q Center, PNCA Photography Award Recipient Show
Digital Black and White Archival Prints
20inch x 20inch
Completed 2010
A series of self portraits amongst affluence.
To View The Entire Series: finngpaul@gmail.com
EXHIBITIONS
Fontanelle Gallery, Tuff Luck, CalArts QAC
Archival Digital Prints
Various Sizes
Completed 2010
Recreations of scenes from the 1983 film, The Outsiders. As youngins we idealized the lives of this pack of men.
To View The Entire Series: finngpaul@gmail.com
