Star Amerasu

Two transwomen chance encounter in the club bathroom, one at the end of her rope, one at the end of her break working at the bar.

Queer performance artist and musician Saturn Risin9 returns home to the Bay Area to share their journey of perseverance centering self discovery, healing and creative expansion poetically told through dance, visual narrative, performance, and documentary.

At her first audition for a strip club, a young feminist meets three veteran dancers and discovers she has a lot to learn about what it means to choose to step out on that stage.

A visual autobiographical poem by Star Amerasu, Outfest Fusion's resident artist.

Unable to move on from a breakup, Gabi, a queer Latina freelance editor, impulsively drops into an old job at an underground lap dance party, where she unexpectedly runs into a friend from her past.

A celebration of being there for yourself in this wild, isolating world. Created during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and captured entirely through iPhone screen recording.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Homage to the Akerman masterpiece Jeanne Dielman. Film by Roger Stack. Music by Star Amerasu.

Music by and starring Star Amerasu (as AH-MER-AH-SU). Film by Roger Stack.

Stream-of-conscious filmmaking with live performance, on mustering up the energy to seize the day and work with the knowledge of future flowers.