Elliot Montague's films explore the nuances of trans and queer narratives through an engagement with kinship, the familial, the spectral, and rurality. Informed by the Slow Cinema movement and situated within Trans New Wave Cinema, his work explores intergenerational narratives that bring forward magical realism and the folkloric within a meditative pace. His award-winning films have received international recognition at over 80 festivals, museums, and venues, including the Media Arts Festival in Osnabruck, Germany; the Anthology Film Archives in New York; the Dashanzi Arts Festival in Beijing; The Queens Museum of the Moving Image in NY; and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; among others.
Montague’s most recent project focuses on the overlapping experiences between the pregnant and birthing body and transgender and gender expansive identities. This three-part series, The Birthing Series, is a body of work that unpacks how we think about transitions, from life to afterlife, dying to death, pregnancy to childbirth, child to parent and vice versa - all outside of linear time.
At MacDowell, Montague worked on his autobiographical experimental film, I'll Meet you on the Other Side, the second installment of The Birthing Series. Montague also began his first feature script, All These Dreams, and plans to shoot a proof of concept of the script during the summer of 2026. In December 2025, Montague will continue post production on his film as an artist-in-residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA.
