About Clocked: An Oral History
The film Clocked: An Oral History is the story of transgender activism and life through the eyes of the people. It is a first person portrait of the transgender community through personal insights, stories and reflections on the meaning of community and being transgendered or transsexual.
The film grew out of an idea, seeded by a friend, about taking oral histories from transgender elders but the film quickly gained a life of its own. Due to the lack of visibility of female-to-male transmen and certain male-to-female transwomen, I wanted to make a statement that not all transgendered people have the same narrative and that not all history is objective.
This film project is an ethnography that centers on a marginalized people who are misunderstood in many ways. Using the method of visual anthropology to study human culture and diversity through the camera's lens, I hope that a fuller vision, of where the transgender community should be focusing its efforts, will emerge.