Star Amerasu

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Unable to move on from a breakup, Gabi, a queer Latina freelance editor, impulsively drops into an old job at an underground lap dance party, where she unexpectedly runs into a friend from her past.

MAJOR! follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a 73-year-old Black transgender woman who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years.

Two transwomen chance encounter in the club bathroom, one at the end of her rope, one at the end of her break working at the bar.

Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation.

A visual autobiographical poem by Star Amerasu, Outfest Fusion's resident artist.

At her first audition for a strip club, a young feminist meets three veteran dancers and discovers she has a lot to learn about what it means to choose to step out on that stage.

A celebration of being there for yourself in this wild, isolating world. Created during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and captured entirely through iPhone screen recording.

Music by and starring Star Amerasu (as AH-MER-AH-SU). Film by Roger Stack.

Queer performance artist and musician Saturn Risin9 returns home to the Bay Area to share their journey of perseverance centering self discovery, healing and creative expansion poetically told through dance, visual narrative, performance, and documentary.

Stream-of-conscious filmmaking with live performance, on mustering up the energy to seize the day and work with the knowledge of future flowers.

Homage to the Akerman masterpiece Jeanne Dielman. Film by Roger Stack. Music by Star Amerasu.