Rhys Ernst

Rhys Ernst is a writer/director who places multidimensional queer/trans characters within larger narratives, complicating (trans) gender representation in film and video. Ernst received his MFA in Film/ Video at CalArts in 2011 and a BA from Hampshire College in 2004. His MFA film THE THING premiered at Sundance 2012 and his new film SHE GONE ROGUE premiered at the 2012 “Made in LA” Los Angeles Biennial at the Hammer Museum and subsequently in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and “Fan the Flames” at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Past screening venues include Oberhausen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and in Los Angeles at UCLA Hammer Museum, REDCAT, and LACE.