Mirha-Soleil Ross
Also Known As: Jeanne B.
Biography: Mirha-Soleil Ross is a transsexual videographer, performance artist, sex worker and activist. Her work since the early 1990s in Montreal and Toronto has focused on transsexual rights, access to resources, advocacy for sex workers and animal rights.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: Not available
Age: Not available
Gender: Female
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Gender Troublemakers
Overview: What happens when two trans dykes get sick of non-transsexual's uninformed representation of their sexualities and their lives? They grab their 8 millimeter home video camera, their last 200 bucks, and come up with an uncompromising in-your-face flick about their shitty relationships with gay men and their unabashed attraction to other transsexual women.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Chroniques
Overview: Three video-diary segments in which a transsexual prostitute recounts different circumstances that lead her to practice unsafe sex with clients.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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I Would Never Have Known: A Conversation with Peter Dunnigan
Overview: A conversation with Toronto community activist and female-to-male transsexual Peter Dunnigan. He speaks openly about addiction, recovery, sexuality, and life as a gender outcast. More than an educational tool for a general audience, this video is a call for transsexuals, both female-to-males and male-to-females, to unite, heal, and resist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Trembling Flesh
Overview: A poetic meditation on the beauty, perils and power of sexuality in a transsexual woman's body.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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G-SPrOuT!
Overview: A cyberspace encounter turns into a trans/polysexual vegan-docu-porno featuring urban veggie lovers speaking out on dating, intimacy and sex in a meat-centered culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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An Adventure in Tucking with Jeanne B.
Overview: A candid home video capturing a transgender sex worker in a very sticky situation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Dysfunctional
Overview: An in your face response to society's fascination and repulsion for transsexual genitals, bodies, and sexualities.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Madame Lauraine's Transsexual Touch
Overview: Spend an evening at Madame Lauraine's transsexual whorehouse where you can either eat in or take out!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore
Overview: A documentary based on first-person Toronto performance show (7 monologues) dealing with prostitution and anti-prostitution. A tour de force by Canada’s most famous transsexual sexworker animal-rights activist performance artist, Yapping is hilarious and moving --half autobiographical, half agitprop satire, fully unforgettable.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-01
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Tales from the Derrière
Overview: A video recording of a 1999 performance in which a transsexual prostitute shares work-related anecdotes spiced-up with political comments about her butthole.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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HELLO PERFORMANCE!
Overview: From May 2001 to February 2002, transsexual performance artist Mirha-Soleil Ross appeared pregnant every time she was in public. This video features Mirha-Soleil performing pregnancy by the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco and an audio recording of her mother speaking about the ups and downs of having a baby. Created as a part of Mirha-Soleil Ross' performance art cycle: The Pregnancy Project. The Pregnancy Project explores some transsexual women's relationship to the personal and institutional aspects of motherhood and hopes to foster community discussion around controversial reproductive technologies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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