Patricia in the Dark

A short documentary about a 92-year-old woman born into a world where the word ‘transgender’ didn’t exist. A conviction that she was living in the wrong body simmered beneath every turn of her life, from being forced into the army to entering into a crushing marriage. She constrained her true identity to the covert safety of darkness – in cinema auditoriums and her photography darkroom –, spending much of her life, literally and figuratively, in the dark.