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Noah Schamus on How Their Debut Feature ‘Summer Solstice’ Captures Trans Intimacy by Mocking Bad Tropes and Embracing Bad Sex
Noah Schamus discusses their debut feature "Summer Solstice" and eschewing bad tropes of onscreen transness for their Rohmer-influenced anti-romcom.
Now playing in New York and opening in Los Angeles on June 21, “Summer Solstice” follows Leo out of the audition room and on to a weekend vacation upstate with Eleanor (Marianne Rendón), a sunny cisgender college friend who runs at a much quicker tempo, almost inconsiderately so. Their playful docufiction shorts reconsider how transness is represented onscreen, with the New Yorker-produced “The Script” reimagining baroque conversations about gender-affirming care with medical providers through a genre slant. “Summer Solstice” serves as a continuation of Schamus’ nonfiction projects, this time armed with an evident Eric Rohmer influence on its comedy, as characters breed their own isolation and flail for connection.
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