Join us for a screening of Samira Elagoz and Z Walsh’s award-winning short film and a subsequent artist talk in Kino Olympia!
You can’t get what you want but you can get me is a unique, award-winning short film documenting two long-haired transmasculine artists falling in love. Over the course of one year, Samira Elagoz and Z Walsh gathered a series of photographs and screenshots from real-life events such as their first kiss, meeting each other’s parents, long-distance thirst traps, a staged wedding, and top surgery and its subsequent recovery.
The final result is a sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love with life and art all tangled up.
“There is one work that I’d want everyone to see right now. The video work manages to reach and capture something about youth, love, and life that you rarely come across.”
– Sanna Lipponen / Helsingin Sanomat
“Irreverent and yet deeply felt, a refreshing love story centering trans joy that’s hot and intimate like a spit in the mouth.”
– Camden Film Festival Jury
Samira Elagoz is a Finnish/Egyptian transmasculine artist. Since graduating from the Amsterdam University of the Arts in 2016, Elagoz has toured in various international film, visual art, and performance contexts. Elagoz has dedicated his career to exploring themes such as gender, the politics of the gaze, sexual violence and its aftermath, digital romanticism, and intimate encounters. With a background in performative arts, he blends cinematic performance with theatrical documentary, creating a unique brand of ‘docu-fiction’ that weaves real and artificial elements together to reveal the absurdity in conventional scenarios.
Z Walsh is a Brooklyn-based transgender director, producer, model and artist who focuses his artistic work on photography. Amongst New York’s and Los Angeles’ creative communities he is well-known for his raw, full-hearted depictions of both his subjects and himself. Z’s passion lies in elevating trans voices and opposing trans masc erasure.
Director, concept, edit, camera: Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh