Charli Christine Marker

A man has the same dream every night.

Adapting an unpublished screenplay by Hollis Frampton, Charli explores and challenges the perceptions of trans women at their most intensely dysphoric.

Charli lays out the fraught and traumatic history of her medical transition in the midst of falling deeply in love with her beautiful and brilliant new* trans authoress girlfriend.

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.)

A short film by Charli Rogers

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.

Adapting an unpublished screenplay by Hollis Frampton, Charli explores and challenges the perceptions of trans women at their most intensely dysphoric.

Charli lays out the fraught and traumatic history of her medical transition in the midst of falling deeply in love with her beautiful and brilliant new* trans authoress girlfriend.

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.)

A short film by Charli Rogers

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.

Over the first summer of the pandemic, a boujee trans woman going through conversion therapy is confronted with a morally ambiguous guilt she can’t get out of her mind.

A fat autistic trans woman struggles through conversion therapy by walking her dogs and trying to accept her naked body.

A time in the park with a detransitioning trans woman's dogs reveals all isn't what it seems.

A short film by Charli Christine Marker.

Following 2.5 years of conversion therapy, an autistic trans woman tries to reclaim herself in the Bay Area.

Following 2.5 years of conversion therapy, an autistic trans woman tries to reclaim herself in the Bay Area.

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.

Unreleased music video for the Ariel Zetina track of the same name.

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.

A pair of San Francisco roommates reminisce following a house party around a stripper pole.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

A mostly-silent exploration of the darkness within the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago, told from the camera of possibly its poorest housed resident.

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.

Charli contemplates the messiness of the ethics in filmmaking and collaboration.