Thank you all for coming to the screening of Birth of the Hive Queen and Jason & Shirley Revisited at Spectacle Theater.
I had an insightful and probing conversation with Stephen Winter, Jack Waters, Peter Cramer and Sarah Schulman discussing the race, gender, and class paradigms which besiege the characters of the film.
If you unfortunately missed both screenings do not worry. On Tuesday, May 19th there will be a screening with a Q&A moderated by @judysquirrels at Nitehawk Prospect Park and on Saturday, May 23rd there is an encore screening again at Spectacle.
For more info the links are in the bio.
Jason & Shirley Revisited (92min)
Dir. Stephen Winter
Nitehawk Prospect Park
05.19.2026 6:45PM
Birth of the Hive Queen (8min)
Dir. Tempest Creation
@thefilmdesk
Clip from my film 'Birth of the Hive Queen' screening at Spectacle Theater on May 1-2, 2026 7:30pm.
Tickets are available in the link in my bio and there will be rush tickets at the door.
Today on Gender Conceal, @ozzy_llinas chats with filmmaker @tempestcreation about her short film Birth of the Hive Queen! Topics include:
- Trying to inflict psychological harm on your viewers 😇
- Casting 13 moths to play the role of one moth 🥰
- Why Tempest's movies always have “hooker brain”
- How Birth of the Hive Queen was inspired by @tourmaliiine 's Salacia and the real lives of historical trans sex workers
- Making an animated short to alienate your transition blogger YouTube audience 😎
- Does trans cinema have any coherent aesthetics beyond “this shit is crazy”??
- What if we stopped having names?
- Getting banned by the Library of Congress?????
- And more!
Listen to the full episode at patreon dot com slash gender. Birth of the Hive Queen is available to watch on our Patreon through May(!!!!!!!), and is screening on May 1 & 2 at Spectacle and on May 19 at Nitehawk.
My most recent short film Birth of the Hive Queen is screening at Spectacle Theater before Jason and Shirley Revisited by the illustrious director Stephen Winter @stephenwintersir
Following the screenings both nights I will be moderating a Q&A with Sarah Schulman, Jack Waters and Stephen Winter about how they concocted this gonzo film re-examining the now infamous Portrait of Jason.
Thank you to the powerhouse programmer, @jurassic_seb who made this all possible.
I would not want you to miss this iconic screening, more info and tickets in bio.
Notes on trans-loving cis filmmakers. I originally wrote this as a part of an Artist’s Statement and decided to expand this into a post with less care for legibility.
CONGRATULATIONS TO @tempestcreation
This film provides a look into the life of Annarchy Artist, an avant-garde drag queen. While preparing for a night of gogo-dancing, Annarchy elucidates the relationship of her performances to her concepts of gender and childhood. The film is an intimate portrait of how performance art serves as both a means of livelihood and a powerful tool for personal expression and identity exploration.
Esta película ofrece una mirada a la vida de Annarchy Artist, una drag queen de vanguardia. Mientras se prepara para una noche de gogo-dancing, Annarchy elucida la relación de sus actuaciones con sus conceptos de género e infancia. El filme es un retrato íntimo de cómo el arte performático sirve tanto como medio de vida como una poderosa herramienta para la expresión personal y la exploración de la identidad.
