Netherlands
Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh

You can't get what you want, but you can get me

FILM INFO

A creative slideshow chronicling a developing relationship between two long-haired trans men, their long-distance dating, family introductions, and top surgery recovery over a year through texts and pictures.

Original title
You can't get what you want, but you can get me
Country
Netherlands
Year
2024
Duration
15’
Color / Black&White
Color
Form
Documentary

DIRECTOR:

Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh

​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, such as the Venice Biennale, IDFA, Rotterdam Film Festival, CPH:DOX, The Eye Museum, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, and The White Chapel Gallery. Throughout his career, he has won several awards, the latest being the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale Teatro in 2022.

Brooklyn-based transgender director, producer, model, and artist Z Walsh focuses his artistic work on photography. He is well-known in New York and Los Angeles’s creative communities for his raw, full-hearted depictions of both his subjects and himself. Z’s passion lies in elevating trans voices and opposing transmasc erasure.

Filmography

Seek Bromance (2021); Craigslist Allstars (2016)

You can’t get what you want but you can get me (2024)

DIRECTOR:

team

Director
Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
Screenplay
Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
Camera
Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
Editing
Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
Production Design
Music
Cast
Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
Producer
Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
Production
World Sales Company

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