Glamhag

is a director, production designer, multimedia & performance artist making work in Chicago. Glam spends their time collaborating with their friends making films and music videos, fabricating objects in their studio and building sets. Glam is the founder of Glamhag Productions.

Glam makes work about desire, consumerism, gender, sex and food. Channeling their own feelings and desires into this work and examining our everyday performances.

Glamhag’s work and lifestyle align with the dismantling of white supremacy, the liberation of trans people, the decriminalization of sex work, abolition of police forces and prisons and the liberation of Palestine ✌️

It Takes A Village is a short film directed by Glamhag and written by Sarah Squirm and Glamhag. It is about two pregnant cult members rushing to make it in time for a big ceremony. It was finished in 2022 and has had a successful festival run including Final Girls Film Festival in Berlin and Wench Film Festival in Mumbai. It is now available to watch online via this website!

Holy Trinity is Glam’s feature debut about a Dominatrix who can speak to the dead after huffing the contents of an aerosol can; the film was produced in part by Full Spectrum Features and Forager Films. In 2018, they received an Illinois Arts Council grant, a Chicago individual artist grant and was listed in the Newcity’s Film 50 Screen Gems of 2018. The film premiered at Outfest Los Angeles July 2019 and had its East Coast Premiere at Newfest 2019.

Glam has adapted the film to be a scratch and sniff interactive film. Its debut sold out the Nitehawk theatre in Brooklyn June 2023.

Holy Trinity is currently looking for distribution and a home online, in the meantime you can watch it via the link below

In 2018 Glam played a friendly Dominatrix named Amelia on Joe Swanberg’s Netflix Original Easy.

Their short film Maggie's Problem was an official selection of the Chicago Underground Film Festival and the Olympia Film Festival 2015. It won Best Art Direction at the North Portland Unknown Film Festival and is now distributed by Troma.

Glamhag played the role of Mary Woah in E. Esperanza’s short film Make-out Party (2018). They worked on production design along with Esperanza, the film received Best Production Design at the Las Vegas Queer Arts Film Festival 2018 and has had a successful festival run.