Seattle Documentary Association (SeaDoc) hosts Work-in-Progress screenings at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, Washington. Open to the public with a primary audience of fellow documentary filmmakers, these moderated screenings foster a space for critical feedback and constructive dialogue.
Join SeaDoc for our first in-person Work-in-Progress screening since the pandemic. SeaDoc and Three Dollar Bill Cinema present the documentary This Body, Too directed by Arisleyda Dilone. With a body unlike any other, Aris, a filmmaker, unthreads her relationship to femininity and gender norms as a Dominican immigrant and an intersex-woman.
The screening will take place in-person at the Northwest Film Forum on Sunday, July 17 from 4:00 - 6:30 pm. Director, Arisleyda Dilone, will be in attendance from New York. Co-presented with Three Dollar Bill Cinema
Registration is now closed.
More about This Body, Too:
By the end of high school, at the age of eighteen, I had yet to develop breasts or get my period. The following year, 2001, I began estrogen and progesterone hormone treatment to spur my final steps towards a ‘complete’ body. This body was born into a backdrop of a traditionally matriarchal Dominican clan. But my mom didn’t get her period until she was eighteen, so my body’s slower development was perhaps hereditary. That all changed in college. Abnormalities were found in my ovaries, a rare variation was discovered in my genetics, and after undergoing a procedure, in Long Island, New York, to avoid the potential for ovarian cancer I awoke to find the doctor had performed another procedure.
After the procedure, I struggled to understand how I fit in as a woman. I recreated my body to reflect the idealized vision of my mother, my sisters, and my aunties. With this mind, in 2005, at twenty-one years old, right before my final year of college I got breast implants. I’ve spent the last decade filming conversations with family as I try to unpack what it means to be a woman with this body and reconsider bodily autonomy in the face of my childhood.
Through This Body, Too: we go into my body-down to the marrow. We navigate my romantic relationships as my identity morphs. And we excavate my family's deepest roots in my natal village in Dominican Republic, where our definitions of gender were sown and where intersex bodies are not unheard of.
Walk-ins welcome pending capacity. Note that masks and either proof of COVID-19 vaccination OR a negative result from a COVID-19 test administered within the last 48 hours will be required. Read more about NWFF COVID policy here: https://nwfilmforum.org/nwff-covid-19-guidelines/
(Walk-ins welcome pending capacity)