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 85 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 is a twice recipient of the Princess Grace Award from the Princess Grace Foundation. His films are partially distributed through Women Make Movies and Video Data Bank. He is an Assistant Professor of Film Production at Mount Holyoke College.
Montague’s most recent project focuses on the overlapping experiences between the pregnant and birthing body and transgender identities and intergenerational caretaking. 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; 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 next narrative script, All These Dreams, which will be shot during the summer of 2026 and will conclude The Birthing Series. In December 2025, Montague continued post production on his film as an artist-in-residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA.
