Skip to content


Short Documentary

Tessitura

Screenings
  • Closed captions online Closed Captioning
  • Open captions in-person Open Captions



Opera singer Breanna Sinclairé performs onstage in a scene from TESSITURA.

Screenings


In-Person
Virtual


Tessitura explores the entangled ways that voice, character and gender are continuously reformulated in opera by those who contend with these connections daily.








Directors Spotlight



Lydia Cornett

Director

Lydia Cornett is a filmmaker, composer, and artist. Her work explores the contours of labor, language and artistic expression across nonfiction and experimental forms.

Brit Fryer

Director

Brit Fryer is an artist and filmmaker from Chicago’s South Side, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His unique approach to nonfiction storytelling centers on gender and queerness through process-forward and collaborative methods. Through intimate character stories and curious social experiments, he explores the inherited and traded narratives of queer and trans individuals.







  • Year 2025
  • Runtime 18 minutes
  • Country United States
  • Language English
  • Director Lydia Cornett & Brit Fryer
  • Producer Brit Fryer, Lydia Cornett
  • Executive Producer Chris White, Jenni Wolfson, Kiyoko McCrae, Opal Bennett
  • Co Producer American Documentary, Chicken & Egg Pictures
  • Cast Breanna Sinclairé, Katherine Goforth, Lucas Bouk, Naomi André
  • Cinematographer Sophia Feuer
  • Editor Drew De Pinto
  • Sound Design Micah Garrido
  • Premiere Philadelphia





You may also like