Charli Christine Marker
Directing
Biography
Charli Christine Marker (1993, Chicago) is an autistic trans filmmaker who simultaneously uses the language of nightcore, slow cinema, BBW porn, the dance-driven spirit of Shirley Clarke, electroacoustic improvisation, and the “direct cinema” of Frederick Wiseman and Allan King to express her bodymind and the bodyminds of those she loves the best she can.
Known For
Following 2.5 years of conversion therapy, an autistic trans woman tries to reclaim herself in the Bay Area.
Christine
Charli contemplates the messiness of the ethics in filmmaking and collaboration.
Projection/Admiration
Charli tries to explain her philosophy on her art's gaze and its potential for fighting fascism, but wonders whether it's anywhere near enough.
The Shape of Girl to Come
A short film by Charli Rogers
Hostile Architecture
A meditation on the director's relative complacency in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and how she got to the point of questioning her leftist identity.
On Liberalism
During her final week of living in the boujee town she grew up in, a detransitioning trans woman observes how the commercialism of the space affected her femininity.
Patti's Cafe (Let Us Make)
A pair of San Francisco roommates reminisce following a house party around a stripper pole.
Untitled
Like something from an Insta-hoe Jonas Mekas or Chris Marker, this mockumentary parodies coming-out narratives directed by cis people, and examining the complicated relationship between marginalization and privilege. (Part I of The Squish Trilogy)
Raisin Bran Squish
In the midst of intense dysmorphia, filmmaker Charli Christine Marker takes her most fatsexual early footage and tries to figure out whether she is truly more beautiful with her padding after all.
A Squish Abridged
A nod to disability activist Harlan Hahn's ideas about fast food and disability, this short shows an autistic trans woman in conversion therapy trying to cope through her relationship with food.
The MILF Cinema
A fat autistic trans woman struggles through conversion therapy by walking her dogs and trying to accept her naked body.
Akerman Ambriance
A man has the same dream every night.
Train To Knowhere
Unreleased music video for the Ariel Zetina track of the same name.
Cyclorama
Charli interviews homeless autistic trans LA filmmaker Khloë Gwen over a 22-hour day, discussing art, life, death, queer relationships, and trauma along the way.
Racine Grace
A time in the park with a detransitioning trans woman's dogs reveals all isn't what it seems.
Possible Endings
A mostly-silent exploration of the darkness within the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago, told from the camera of possibly its poorest housed resident.
Milf Cinema IV
A trans woman nonverbally processes the parts of her womanhood that seem to never stop being difficult (save for the glorious moments when they temporarily do.)
Mastalghia
Throughout summer 2019, Charli tries to balance her perception of her body with handling increasingly frequent autistic meltdowns and conflicts with friends in the Chicago queer art scene. The second part of The Squish Trilogy.
Squish Trilogy Episode II: Charli
A short film by Charli Christine Marker.
The Accompaniment
Upon discovering an SD card on a beach from 2009, an autistic trans woman looks through a decade of cringe photos in her camera roll to see who she’s become.