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IDFA 2021

The End of Wonderland

La fin de Wonderland
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
Canada
2021
85 min
World Premiere
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American transgender adult performer Tara Emory has been working for years on her “trans sci-fi porn epic” Up Uranus. With almost no budget but an inexhaustible supply of creativity, she builds her own impressive retro-futuristic sets and “testostrobots”—all with a clear nod to low-budget 1950s science fiction and lots of fun sex.

The short extracts from Emory’s magnum opus are among the highlights of this unhurried portrait. The filmmakers followed her for several years, capturing everything from her hairline operation in Mexico to colorful photo shoots for her porn site, and a conversation with her mother. All the while, Emory’s focus is on shaping her life on her own conditions—as a sex worker, trans woman, filmmaker, costume designer, set designer, comic strip artist, and more.

Her threatened eviction from the shed she's converted into a studio is a setback, but maybe it will at last put an end to her hoarding—a problematic habit she inherited from her father, along with her skills as an auto mechanic. Her ability to repair old cars means she feels completely at home with the men at a car show when she turns up in her pink dress driving a self-refurbished Citroën 2CV.

Credits
Director
Cinematography
    Laurence Turcotte-Fraser,
    Andréanne Chartrand-Beaudry
Editing
    Karim Haroun,
    Milène Ortenberg
    Karim Haroun,
    Milène Ortenberg
Sound
    Laurent Bédard
    Laurent Bédard
Music
    Christian Zuliani
    Christian Zuliani
Screening copy
    Clotilde Vatrinet for Les Films du 3 Mars
    Clotilde Vatrinet for Les Films du 3 Mars
Animation
    Jon Tate
    Jon Tate

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