Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
Dir Daniel Peddle | 2023 | USA | 78 min
📅 Wednesday 29 July
🕖 7:00pm
📍 UCL East Community Cinema – One Pool Street
To celebrate two years of Spectra: Queer Non-Fiction Films, we would like to return to where it all began. For this special anniversary, we are revisiting our very first screening to show the follow-up to the iconic documentary The Aggressives.
BEYOND THE AGGRESSIVES: 25 YEARS LATER revisits four of the original subjects from Daniel Peddle’s groundbreaking 2005 film THE AGGRESSIVES – a seminal documentary centring masculine-presenting people of colour assigned female at birth.
The now-iconic Kisha, Trevon, Octavio and Chin are back, sharing their triumphs and challenges. Over the years, this has included pursuing dreams in the arts, surviving the experience of being held in ICE detention, reuniting with estranged children, deciding whether to start families of their own, and seeking gender-affirming healthcare. The new film also delves into how much the language, culture and visibility of the transgender, non-binary and gender-nonconforming community have evolved, while grappling with the many complexities of gender identity, expectations and expression.
Come and join us to celebrate two years of Spectra with this free screening!