Your group chat goes experimental doc and asks: are ANY of us special tho?
Blending candid interviews, experimental moments, and reflective narration, this 55-minute personal doc explores what it means to grow up when the people who love you also struggle to accept who you are. Through screen-recorded calls with friends, street interviews, and distant footage of everyday life, I examine my upbringing as a queer non-binary trans person—where love, expectation, and shame often coexisted—among a sea of other stories about adolescence. Anchored by a conversation with a close friend and fellow artist, the film sits in the tension between care and rejection, asking if anyone is even really special—or maybe all of us are.
Direction
Cooper turns screen recordings into sacred space
Editing
Street interviews collide with private memory
Director
Marcelese Cooper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Diary films by trans creators have exploded since 2020, but Cooper's screen-native approach—TikTok pacing with essay-film patience—feels distinctly Gen Z documentary.
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