Join us for a screening of Trans Day of Vanishing, followed by an artist talk with Montreal-based video essayist Lily Alexandre on the subject of trans visibility politics, discussing how her views and the political context surrounding the work have changed since its release in 2025, as well as situating the work within a Swedish context. The talk will be joined by Lily as well as Yaël Pool, current head curator of PAGE 28, and moderated by Asta Norborg, former head curator of PAGE 28.

The screening and artist talk are both in English.

NOTES ON VANISHING 
‘Through film critique, protest footage, and surveillance cameras, Lily Alexandre raises a difficult question: is it time for trans people to make themselves disappear?

Trans Day of Vanishing (alt. Title: Notes on Vanishing), winner of one of the best video essay in 2025 by Sight & Sound magazine, traces the politics of being seen, mapping the fraught intersections of media, activism, and state scrutiny. Featuring Nigerian writer Unoma Azuah, the film situates contemporary trans discourse within broader structures of risk, resistance, and survival.

Produced a decade after the so-called “trans tipping point,” and in the shadow of Trump’s second inauguration within an increasingly hostile media climate, Trans Day of Vanishing emerged as both reckoning and survival. The work reflects a deeply personal attempt to reconcile the necessity of public resistance with an instinctive desire to retreat from the forces causing harm. In holding this tension, Trans Day of Vanishing becomes both political inquiry and intimate self-examination, allowing urgency and vulnerability to coexist without forcing resolution.

The work is also shaped by dialogue, through Lily’s encounters with 75 SHOTS Pocket Cinema in intimate screenings, Under the Radar gatherings, conversations with guest artists, and exchanges across our virtual Q&As. It is a film informed not only by analysis, but by relationship and community.

LILY ALEXANDRE BIO
Lily Alexandre is a filmmaker and video essayist based in Montreal. Her work weaves art criticism, gender theory, tech critique, and religious studies into complex but cogent accounts of modern life. Five of her video essays have been named among the best of their respective years by Sight & Sound Magazine. She co-owns independent streaming platform Nebula, produces fiction and documentary work for Dépanneur Films, and works with the 75 SHOTS collective to support LGBTQ+ filmmakers in the Global South.