“A
Tale of Two Dogs: A Henry Hanson Double Feature,” total runtime 114 min.
Saturday, June 20, 2026, 5:30 PM, New Parkway, Oakland
streaming on Vimeo On Demand and on the Criterion Channel
⚠️🔞 explicit sexual conversations and less-explicit on-screen activity
- 🙂 Puppygirl (documentary), dir. Henry Hanson, 2025, USA, 58 min.
- 😑 Dog Movie, dir. Henry Hanson, 2023, 56 min.
(The films may screen in the opposite order. They are listed here in the order I saw them.)
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| Puppygirl |
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| Dog Movie |
Frameline blurb (double feature): He/they underground filmmaker Henry Hanson presents a pair of bite-size features exposing two of the greatest scourges facing trans people today: housing drama and puppygirls. Good girls and bad dogs only.
In the narrative Dog Movie, a passive-aggressive genderqueer T4T couple sends their household into a (very quiet, very polite) tailspin when they adopt an elderly dog that shares a similar name with their unemployed couchsurfing friend (Milo Talwani) who they just can’t bring themselves to confront.
Then, in the new documentary Puppygirl, Henry follows Milo as she embarks on a shockingly bizarre, yet oddly touching personal odyssey to break free from her asexual phase by performing in puppygirl fetish porn. Will she finally live up to everyone else’s image of her, and what happens when the camera is turned back on Henry?
🙂 Puppygirl (documentary), dir. Henry Hanson, 2025, USA, 58 min.
Frameline blurb (Puppygirl): In this gonzo documentary by director Henry Hanson, a semi-delusional trans woman (Milo Talwani) embarks on a shocking, bizarre, and oddly touching personal odyssey to undo years of sexual repression by performing in puppygirl fetish porn.
My take: Puppygirl is definitely well outside the mainstream in many respects. Milo Talwani is more than a little bit eccentric, but is also a longtime friend of Henry Hanson, so Hanson knows what questions to ask. It has a bit of a Richard Linklater / Slackers feel to it, though in Chicago rather than Austin. It’s interesting, but of greatest interest to people in (or curious about) the pup scene, so recommended generally, but a must see for pup players.
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😑 Dog Movie, dir. Henry Hanson, 2023, 56 min.
Frameline blurb (Dog Movie): A passive-aggressive tenderqueer couple sends their household into a quiet tailspin when they adopt an elderly dog who shares the same name as the unemployed couch surfer they just can’t seem to confront in filmmaker Henry Hanson’s improvised microbudget debut feature, which he/they describe as “the trans Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
My take: Bloo, the couchsurfer, is incredibly annoying, and Haven and Arrow, the couple, are almost as annoying, almost as passive aggressive with one another as they are with Bloo. I really had no desire to spend time with any of the three of them; the only sympathetic character is the dog Blue. It’s not horrible, but definitely meh.
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