Gaea Gaddy

A group of criminal justice de-escalation workers in Minneapolis embark on a collaborative film project that uses radical workshop techniques to explore their real-life struggles to escape the pressures of the American dream.

OPEN is a hallucinogenic journey through gender, identity, the body, love and how those can be shared by two people. The film consists of interlocking stories lines- the first about two trans women in a pandrogynous relationship in which they simultaneously receive plastic surgery treatments to mirror each other's features to ideally form into a single person. The second story follows a trans man and his new (cisgender) boyfriend as they run away from home and push against their own personal boundaries while dealing with his unexpected pregnancy.