Goodbye Python

‘Goodbye Python’ is Frankie’s first short film - it was awarded BFI funding and is the first sci-fi film by a transgender director ever made with public backing in the UK. In 2023 it was accepted into the BAFTA Qualifying Iris Prize with a nomination for Best British Short right at the beginning of its festival run along with Encounters, Two Short Nights, Queer Vision and BFI Flare 2024. The film was also streaming for a year on Channel 4.

A vibrant, technicolour dreamscape exploring the layers of grief and repeated encounters with loss that shape the trans experience. ‘Goodbye Python’ follows Kai, a software engineer whose funding is cut from his grief-healing simulation program. But when Kai releases the conscious AI system he works with, things take an unexpected turn — forcing him to confront the person he most needs to see.

“I came out in my late twenties, and at the start of my transition, I struggled to say goodbye to a version of myself that had been both my best friend and protector for so many years. It takes time to understand how to integrate these parts of your identity and what they look like in a new form. ‘Goodbye Python’ emerged from these growing pains, written as I began to understand that grief is a lifelong process — like the ring mark left on Kai’s finger, a small but indelible reminder of another life.”

Director: Frankie Fox
Producers: Milo Beyts & Lindsay Fraser
DP: Luke C. Harper
Original Score: Sarahsson

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