“Who’s ready to have a bad time?” asked director Louise Weard to a full audience before the theater lights went down, an apt introduction to the chaos of New/Next Festival’s screening of "Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts–Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage."

I first came upon what I have now dubbed the “New York Transfemme Indie Scene” when I found myself stumbling into a humble church in Queens, otherwise known as the Stone Circle Theatre.

Next week, Baltimore’s oldest cinema, the Charles Theatre, will introduce audiences to the newest voices in film during the New/Next Festival.