Star Amerasu

At her first audition for a strip club, a young feminist meets three veteran dancers and discovers she has a lot to learn about what it means to choose to step out on that stage.

A visual autobiographical poem by Star Amerasu, Outfest Fusion's resident artist.

Unable to move on from a breakup, Gabi, a queer Latina freelance editor, impulsively drops into an old job at an underground lap dance party, where she unexpectedly runs into a friend from her past.

Two transwomen chance encounter in the club bathroom, one at the end of her rope, one at the end of her break working at the bar.

Queer performance artist and musician Saturn Risin9 returns home to the Bay Area to share their journey of perseverance centering self discovery, healing and creative expansion poetically told through dance, visual narrative, performance, and documentary.

Music by and starring Star Amerasu (as AH-MER-AH-SU). Film by Roger Stack.

Homage to the Akerman masterpiece Jeanne Dielman. Film by Roger Stack. Music by Star Amerasu.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation.