Recommended for A2 and equivalent level Film & Media Studies
Shot exclusively on iPhone 5s, Sean Baker’s 2015 US independent film Tangerine takes a stereotyped and misunderstood group of individuals and presents them in a new light. Baker achieves this while presenting cinematography no one ever dreamed the iPhone was capable of capturing.
This event will offer students the opportunity to discuss Tangerine’s use of new technologies and platforms to create and tell its story and to explore how this impacts on traditional notions of genre.
It will also examine issues of representation including the portrayal of transgender communities.
Led by Kirsty Fairclough, Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance, University of Salford
Screening: Tangerine (15)
Dir Sean Baker / USA 2015 / 86mins / Kitana Kiki Rodriguez / Mya Taylor / Karren Karagulian / Mickey O’Hagan
Tangerine is the story of a day in the life of two transgender prostitutes, Sin-Dee and Alex. The film follows them through the tattered streets of LA, where the cast are unknowns discovered by the filmmakers in an LGBT community centre and on social media. This film addresses real issues and uses real people to tell its story. It both redefines “buddy film” and shatters conventional film making techniques.
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