Campbell X
Directing
Biography
Campbell X is a transgender filmmaker, based in the United Kingdom. Their work documents black LGBT culture and they are a leading creator of contemporary British queer cinema.
Known For

Stud lesbian JJ works with her gay best friend Seb as wedding photographers. When JJ falls in love with a beautiful diva, JJ and Seb's friendship is tested, and she’s forced to chose between her hot new lover and her best friend.
Stud Life

A wry interweave film about baby making and how as time marches on the decision gets more intense and less romantic.
Tick Tock Lullaby

Created from a treasure trove of archive, Queerama traverses a century of gay experiences, encompassing persecution and prosecution, injustice, love and desire, identity, secrets, forbidden encounters, sexual liberation and pride. The soundtrack weaves the lyrics and music of John Grant, Goldfrapp and Hercules & Love Affair with the images and guides us intimately into the relationships, desires, fears and expressions of gay men and women in the 20th century – a century of incredible change.
Queerama

Londoner Quinn, a bold young woman of mixed heritage, is at a crossroads after her mother’s sudden death. Hoping to reconnect with her estranged South African father, she sets off on an impulsive journey to Cape Town—but nothing goes as planned. When a chance encounter with the enigmatic Harley leads to an offer of help, the pair are swept into a wild ride through the Western Cape’s electric nightlife, underbelly, and remote backwaters. As they face external dangers, deep-seated prejudice, and personal reckoning, Quinn and Harley form a powerful bond, discovering that the answers they sought may lie within. A story of resilience, identity, and the unexpected roads that lead us home.
Low Rider

Manic-depressive Jack must find a way to leave his manic highs behind him. Can the dullness of ordinary life ever compare to the magic of mania? And is sanity and stability really worth the sacrifice?
Don't Blame Jack
A profile of France's most successful adult movie star Tabatha Cash.
Viva Tabatha

An erotic, stylised documentary celebrating the history and culture of black lesbians. Contemporary interviews are interwoven with a sultry narrative set in 1920s Paris, showing the relationship between a femme jazz singer and her butch daddy lover.
B.D. Women

How do QPOC find out about our history? How can we know about our history when so much becomes myth and gossip or when historians research through a Eurocentric ciscentric heteronormative paradigm? Visible explore the challenges of QPOC history.
Visible

A rich tapestry of image, music and poetry is interwoven in this powerful meditation on Black resilience.
Still We Thrive

An experimental dance film that explores how we change ourselves, altering our appearance and behaviour in order to please other people and the emotional and mental impact that has on us.
Lost Identity

An experimental film exploring the desire for transmasc, transmen, butch, stud, Agressives, masculine of center (MOC) people assigned female at birth. Stunning black-and-white images drift across the screen while transmen, femme women, and butch, and MOC people speak about the complexity of their desire.
DES!RE
(Untitled)2025 is an incantation to our Indigenous ancestors from the Global Majority who experienced enforced binary genders, colonialism and the theft of land and resources. Campbell X explores these themes through a lyrical script, innovative camera techniques which explore the human form in close detail, a haunting soundscape and visuals from lush and devastating extraction from both countries and bodies.
(Untitled)2025

An incantation to our Indigenous ancestors from the Global Majority who experienced enforced binary genders, colonialism and the theft of land and resources. Through a lyrical script and innovative camera techniques, the human form is explored in close detail.
Untitled 2024
Portraying femininity from ancient mythology and popular cinematic culture, Fem subverts images of empowered women to experimental and lyrical effect, with a butch narration from Peggy Shaw of UK Lesbian Feminist Theatre Company ‘Split Britches’.