In the archives of a 1950s gender clinic, a groundbreaking discovery ignites a revolutionary cinematic experiment in Framing Agnes. Director Chase Joynt unearths the case files of Agnes, a trans woman who famously secured medical resources by captivating doctors with her story, and re-imagines her legacy through a daring hybrid of documentary and dramatic reenactment. A formidable ensemble including Angelica Ross, Zackary Drucker, Jen Richards, and Silas Howard step into a vintage talk show set, channeling the voices of other transgender individuals from the same era whose stories were buried alongside Agnes’s. This provocative film interrogates who gets to tell history and why, weaving together past and present to expose the complex negotiations for truth, survival, and recognition. Blurring the lines between performance and testimony, Framing Agnes creates a captivating and insightful dialogue about the power of narrative itself, challenging the very frameworks through which identity has been understood and confined.