Frances Arpaia
Directing · Born Jan 11, 1984 · New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Frances Arpaia is a queer trans woman who lives in Brooklyn and makes weird films. She sort of has a masters degree in Screen Studies from Brooklyn College and occasionally works as a freelance film scholar. Most of the time she is busy making her own films which explore everything from queer life in Brooklyn and the struggles of community and connection, to longform experimental works including feature length performance pieces and video-art shitposts. Apparently people even watch them.
Known for
Directed
A Love Poem to the Cherry Tree in Front of My House
2026
Two Dreams About the End of the World
2026
In Space No One Can Hear You Roar
2026
Transsssssisssssstorssssss
2025
A Sojourn in the Necropolis
2025
Exposed Flesh
2025
Trans Actualities
2025
Capacitors
2024
I put on the Glasses but still I could not see
2023
2 Gurls 1 Jug
2022
The Next Day and Tomorrow...
2022
Luck Be a Lady Tonight
2021
Spooky NY t4t
2021
52 Short Films
20215.0
Fifty Two Short Films in a New York Minute
2021
Sissy Sorcery
2021
DIODEs
2021
Emma Durutti
2019
Transistors
2019
Almost! A Summer of Trans Poetry
2019
Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny
2019
Rooms
2019
New York Counterpoint
2019
FORM FILM
2019
Splish Splash
2019
ATALAYA I
2019
Tunafish Sandwich Piece
2019
A Trans with a Movie Camera
20185.6
Let's Go to the Trans Ladies Picnic
2018
Tomorrow and the Next Day...
2015
Tubes
2015
A Roar in the Dark
2015
A Phantom Ride on the Evergreen Branch
2011
To My Dearest X
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