Tgirls Make Music

Tgirls Make Music (2026)

A film by Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner.

‘T4T Network’ host Lucy documents two trans woman musicians, jasmine.4.t and htmljones, in a tribute to early 2000s TV and contemporary transgender culture in the UK.

Presented as a pilot of a TV show broadcast on the fictional 'T4T Network', the film pays tribute to early 2000s aesthetics, queering ('transing') them through the lens of contemporary transgender and British culture.

The film features musicians jasmine.4.t and htmljones, intercutting interviews with live performances of their music at gigs, inspired by MTV and Top of the Pops.

The film includes nostalgic animated bumpers inspired by those seen on TV networks in the 90s/2000s, such as MTV, Nickelodeon and Adult Swim.

‘Tgirls Make Music’ makes use of digital 3D animation, claymation, digital hand-drawn animation, ASCII art, video compression, dithering and more to recreate the style of aesthetics from that era.

The film is shot on consumer grade Hi8/Video8 tape, an obsolete video format, and features 2000s era ephemera such as money and technology from the era and recontextualises found photography from Flickr.

‘Tgirls Make Music’ was commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella as part of New Takes. New Takes is supported by Jerwood Foundation. Exhibition partner: Arnolfini. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.