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An image split across three carousel images, with text and festival laurels overlaid: Henri Gillespi as Trent/Tiffany and the title treatment, "Castration Movie Chapter 3.2" and the text "In UK and Ireland Cinemas August 28"
Sizzle reel of color test footage from Rufus Seder's Screamplay - alternative actors playing similar scenes, in color
Photo of Tony Rayns - an older bald, spectacled white man, wearing shirt and vest.
UK/Ireland Theatrical poster for Castration Movie 3.2, featuring a close-up still of a woman applying eyeliner and a close-up still of a woman wearing a hands-free microphone headset
Poster for Louise Weard’s Castration Movie, in the style of Arbelos’ poster for Bela Tarr’s Satantango
Screengrab of BFI Flare ticket website, the page for Castration Movie Chapter III, showing tickets for the Sunday 22nd March 2026 screening are sold out but still available for Monday 23rd March.
Stills from Castration Movie Chapter Three framing an angled black banner. White text in the banner reads 'Castration Movie Chapter Three. Junior Ghosts - Premorphic Drift: A Fragmented Passage'. A laurel sits at the top of the image, 'BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival Official Selection'.
Photo of mocked-up VHS tapes on shelf, with Letterboxd Video Store logo superimposed, and the handwritten text "AVAILABLE TO RENT 21/01". The VHS tapes are for Castration Movie Anthology I: Traps and Castration Movie Anthology II: The Best of Both Worlds
Screengrab of Matchbox Cine's online cinema, with white thumbnails for six film programmes, each with a distinct black title treatment, The People's Joker, Castration Movie Anthology I, Castration Movie Anthology II, Gwaed Ar Y Ser, O'r Ddaear Hen, Shorts.
Stylised blocky computer text on black background: "Louise Weard's Castration Movie Anthology II: The Best of Both Worlds"
Photo of pile of Castration Movie posters, zines and badges, with text overlaid: "tonite"
Poster for Castration Movie Anthology II: The Best of Both Worlds, white text with film stills, overlaid with purple wash. Text reads, "Louise Weard Dec 25 tour, 12/12 GMAC Glasgow," with logos for GMAC, SQIFF and Matchbox Cine Film Distribution.
Composite image with pull-quotes from Letterboxd reviews on purple background: "no work of art has ever angered me more." "THE transgender movie of all time. Even more than the first one, I felt so gripped by the sheer authenticity. There are not many films that can so honestly capture trans life in the 21st century. It's funny, awkward and most of all, agonising in the depths it dives through." "arm the dolls" "likely the best film I've seen this year but i am definitely crying myself to sleep tonight."
Composite image with film still and solid purple colour, with white text overlaid, "Castration Movie Anthology II The Best of Both Worlds Louise Weard Dec 2025 Tour", with the tour dates listed.
composite poster image for Castration Movie Anthology II: The Best of Both Worlds, an assemblage of film stills and text, including the pull quote, "Every bit aas funny, dark and uncompromising as that provocative name suggests", credited to Sight and Sound.
UK Theatrical one-sheet poster for Castration Movie II, featuring stills from the film overlaid with text, a purple wash over both
UK poster image for Castration Movie: images from the film overlaid with text, including the title and pull-quote from Sight and Sound: "Every bit as funny, dark and uncompromising as that provocative name suggests."
Photo of two zines on display in book shop - The People’s Joker + Castration Movie production journal
Photo of hand holding stack of zines against blue-painted wall. The zine's cover has three stills from Castration Movie, of director/star lighting a cigarette against a wall covered with graffiti. White text superimposed: Castration Movie Production Journal, matchboxcine.bigcartel.com
Golf ball soars above the treeline, Ben Stiller's moustachioed face superimposed on it
Screengrab of BBFC content advice: Drugs, 4/5, “Sustained scenes show people misusing cocaine and amyl nitrate.”
Screengrab of BBFC website, on listing for Castration Movie Anthology I. Traps, with the 18 certificate logo, and the text, "strong sex, nudity" and "Slice-of-life drama following the unconnected lives of a transgender sex worker who hopes to become a mother, and a production assistant in a failing relationship."
Film still from the People’s Joker with overlaid text. The image is full colour: Joker the Harlequin delivers a stand-up set in front of a stage curtain, viewed on a control room monitor. The text is white: The People’s Joker On Demand, with exclusive Grant Morrison x Vera Drew In Conversaton, watch now. Matchbox Cine logo and website address for online cinema.
Film still from the People's Joker with overlaid text. The image is desaturated: Joker the Harlequin delivers a stand-up set in front of a stage curtain, viewed on a control room monitor. The text is white: The People's Joker On Demand, with exclusive Grant Morrison x Vera Drew In Conversaton, from 16/05. Matchbox Cine logo and website address for online cinema.
Louise Weard, with long blonde hair, wearing a leather jacket, lights a cigarette as she leans against a colourful graffiti-covered wall. Text on the wall reads, 'Castration Movie'.
Matchbox Cine logo in trans pride colours, with the slogan “fix yr heart or die”
Black text on yellow background: Weird Weekend presents The People's Joker. 18.30 Doors. 18.45 pre-show. 19.15 The People's Joker. 20.50 Grant Morrison x Vera Drew (pre-recorded). 21.30 End. @CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street.
White text on a purple background, The People's Joker logo at the centre. The text reads, "A heartfelt love letter to the power of comic book characters to save real lives", Grant Morrison on The People's Joker.
UK quad variation of The People Joker poster. Comic-book style poster featuring The People's Joker characters alongside pullquotes and festival laurals.
Photo of Sight and Sound magazine open at The People's Joker spread, with the Sight and Sound logo superimposed.
White text on a purple background, in the centre an playing card style illustration of Vera Drew as The People's Joker. The text reads, 'The People's Joker. Vera Drew and Grant Morrison In Convesation (Pre-recorded). April 1st. CCA Glasgow. 18.30'.
Purple image with with text and red cartoon lips at the centre. The red lips, smiling wide, have bubble text between their teeth which reads, 'The People Joker'. The white text reads, "The best superhero movie I've ever seen." The New Yorker. In UK and Ireland cinemas now!'.
A screengrab of a tweet on a red background. At the top of the screengrab, red cartoon lips smiles, the text 'The People's Joker' between the teeth. The tweet reads, 'God The People's Joker goes so hard. So fucking sick that it's a real movie that's being screened in cienmas. Why are we funding any movies that aren't like that.'
A photography of two audience members in clown make-up. Both wear leather jackets, the person on the left has blue hair with a shaved side, with white and blue clown-make-up. The person on the right has a pink slicked back mohawk with clown-make on their face in a heart-shaped. They both smile at the camera.
Letterboxd reveiw on a red background, smiling cartoon lips are the top with the text 'The People's Joker' between the teeth. The reveiw reads, 'Cried during the credits. I love being alive, and I love comedy, and I love bein' me. Seeing this in the IFI was such a treat.'
Screengrabbed texted on a red background. At the top of the image, a red cartoon smile with the text 'The People's Joker' between teeth. The text reads, 'The People's Joker at the PCC. Our The People's Joker show last Saturday was a 300 seat sell out. We've plugged in a whole lead of extra shows into our programme across March. It was a smash-hit with our audience in person and on Letterboxd.'
A screengrab of a Letterboxd reveiw, on a purple background, red cartoon smiling lips with the text 'The People's Joker' between them. The reveiw reads, 'The People's Joker, four and a half stars. I mean more than anything just glad this was incredibly funny. As someone who idolises the idea of art made in collaboration by people for themselves, this is more or less everything I've ever wanted. The joy and sincerity and love of just exposing yourself and your heart and finding people who understand it.'
A screengrab of a Tweet from Vera Drew on a purple background, large red cartoon lips a the top with the text 'The People's Joker' between the teeth. The tweet reads, 'It's time to crack down. Goin forward there is a mandatory dress code for all TPJ screenings. Any of the following options, no substitutes, notifying all theatre now: Joker/HQ cosplay or general clown,slutty outfits, black tie/gowns, pj or dysphoria hoodies.'
Illustrated poster for The People's Joker, featuring a playing card image of the lead character, the title treatment in a banner and the text "Come see how she got these (emotional) scars" within a heart.