Eight minutes of 16mm film that'll rewire how you see your own body.
AUGMENTED is an experimental non-fiction short, shot completely on 16mm, that analyzes the commonalities between medical augmentation and Transgender alignment. We are frightening because we're the future.
Cinematography
16mm grain gives flesh a fragile, haunted texture.
Direction
Rea wields personal essay as speculative weapon.
Sound
Dual voiceover creates disorienting, intimate dialogue.
Director
Raymond Rea
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film emerges from a wave of trans artists reclaiming medical documentation as self-determined narrative, flipping the clinical gaze.
Rea specifically chose 16mm to evoke early surgical training films, weaponizing the medium's institutional memory against itself.
US
