black and white portrait of non-binary person smiling. They are wearing striped cat-eye glasses, dangling silver earrings

Julian Grey, Ph.D.

I’m a filmmaker queering media.

WORKS IN PROGRESS:

  • Villains Aren’t Born, They’re Made (digital drag short film/music video on domestic violence and women’s empowerment)

  • Death Speaks (short film on death and the adventure of life)

RECENT PROJECTS:

  • Living Loud - Solo Production (short film)

  • Learning Javanese Gamelan - Producer, Director (series)

  • “What You Made Me Do Last Summer” - Director (music video)

  • “Fantasy” - Director (music video)

RECENT PRESENTATIONS:

  • “Re/Mediating the Drag Narrative: Gender Euphoria in Live-Streamed Short Videos,” ICTM Study Group on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology, Cork, Ireland

  • “The Trans Mirror and Digital Drag’s Musical Potential,” Mediations of Music and Power in Online Music Cultures, Huddinge, Sweden

RECENT WRITING:

  • “Re/Mediating the Trans Mirror: Gender Euphoria and Digital Drag’s Musical Potential” (chapter)

  • “Photographic Silence and Listening for Euphoria” (chapter)