WE ARE PAT

 

WE ARE PAT

Directed by Ro Haber | 2025 | 92 min | United States

Wowing audiences at festivals across North America, WE ARE PAT explores the evolution of gender identity and comedy from the '90s to the present through the lens of the iconic Saturday Night Live sketch, "It's Pat."

The film examines Pat's origins as a joke rooted in the cultural anxiety of the '90s around gender, while drawing striking parallels to today's culture wars around transness and queerness. Trans and non-binary comedians and culture-makers reimagine and rewrite the original Pat sketches, using camp and humour to reclaim and re-envision an iconic character in American comedy.

While exploring humour as both a tool of oppression and a radical force for change, WE ARE PAT also raises complex questions like: How does art age? What responsibility does a creator have as cultural values evolve? Can we reclaim narratives that once mocked us, transforming pain into laughter, visibility, and, ultimately, our own creations?

FESTIVALS: 2025: Tribeca (world premiere), Frameline49, Chicago International, IDFA (European premiere)

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