Jason Barker’s documentary about having to put his transitioning on hold while he tried to become pregnant is filled with gentleness
There’s tenderness and intimacy in this film from Jason Barker, a transgender man who has edited down 25 hours of video footage that he shot over eight years of trying to have a baby with his partner, Tracey, while at the same time pursuing the process of transitioning.
Tracey’s breast cancer and mastectomy was a blow that complicated matters. As they put it: “We started out with four breasts and we’ll be lucky to end up with one.” The film that has come out of this has a video diary or home movie feel, and what it arguably loses in discipline and focus – there are quite a few meandering shots of the view from their flat in East London, and the pigeons making an appearance on their balcony – it gains in emotional openness.
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