Silas Howard
Director
Silas Howard is an American director and writer.
Movies10
Movie7.5MusicDocumentaryTurn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of the inspiring 924 Gilman Street collective. This diverse group of artists, writers, organizers and musicians created a do-it-yourself petri dish that changed the punk scene... and the world at large.
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
2017 · 10 votes
Movie2.3ComedyA comic morality tale about two cocky young lesbians who bite off more than they can chew at a Texas roadside diner.
Don't Mess with Texas
2008 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryMusicA documentary on Queercore, the cultural and social movement that began as an offshoot of punk and was distinguished by its discontent with society's disapproval of the gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender communities.
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
2017 · 14 votes
Movie5.1CrimeDramaShy is a transgender man who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way, he encounters Valentine, a quirky adoptee, in search of his birth mother. An immediate kinship is sparked between these men and they become partners in crime.
By Hook or by Crook
2001 · 13 votes
Movie1.0DocumentaryGender specific restroom spaces are challenging places for gender non-normative people and single parents! This film not only takes a candid look at this issue through a humorous lens and explores the movement to make restroom safe for everyone.
Wrong Bathroom
2005 · 2 votes
Movie3.0DocumentaryDocumentary about the musical scene in Minneapolis, focusing on queer punk groups. Ganser interviews members of groups such as Tribe 8, The Misfires, and The Butchies.
Homocore Minneapolis
1999 · 3 votes
Movie3.8DocumentaryMusicInterweaving performance footage, still photos and pointed interviews, filmmaker Tracy Flannigan provides an intriguing glimpse into the lives and psyches of in-your-face lesbian punk rockers Tribe 8. Based in San Francisco, the band is famous for breaking the rules on stage and everywhere else -- and cameras capture it all as the outrageous ladies kindle controversy from coast to coast. Bonus material includes deletes scenes.
Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary
2003 · 2 votes
Movie5.8DocumentaryAfter discovering case files from the UCLA gender clinic from the 1950s, a group of trans actors confronts the legacy of young trans women being forced to choose between honesty and access.
Framing Agnes
2022 · 8 votes
MovieIn the late 1950s, a woman named Agnes approached the UCLA Medical Center seeking sex reassignment surgery. Her story was long considered to be exceptional and singular until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Framing Agnes features preeminent trans culture-makers breathing new life into those who redefined gender in the midcentury.
Framing Agnes
2019
Movie5.0DramaThrough voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one night stand with a straight girl.
Blue Diary
1998 · 7 votes