2025
Short Documentary(Philadelphia Premiere)(Best Short Documentary Nominee)

Tessitura

CC
Closed captions online
OC
Open captions in-person

Tessitura explores the entangled ways that voice, character and gender are continuously reformulated in opera by those who contend with these connections daily.

Screenings

Virtual

August 1 – August 3

Directors Spotlight

Lydia Cornett

Director

Lydia Cornett is a filmmaker, composer, and artist. Her work explores the contours of labor, language and artistic expression across nonfiction and experimental forms.

Brit Fryer

Director

Brit Fryer is an artist and filmmaker from Chicago’s South Side, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His unique approach to nonfiction storytelling centers on gender and queerness through process-forward and collaborative methods. Through intimate character stories and curious social experiments, he explores the inherited and traded narratives of queer and trans individuals.

Year
2025
Runtime
18 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Director
Lydia Cornett & Brit Fryer
Producer
Brit Fryer, Lydia Cornett
Executive Producer
Chris White, Jenni Wolfson, Kiyoko McCrae, Opal Bennett
Co Producer
American Documentary, Chicken & Egg Pictures
Cast
Breanna Sinclairé, Katherine Goforth, Lucas Bouk, Naomi André
Cinematographer
Sophia Feuer
Editor
Drew De Pinto
Sound Design
Micah Garrido
Premiere
Philadelphia

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