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Herman@s (Les Adelphes)
Queer Wave
2022
Sicilia Queer Film Festival
Pride Jury Award 2021
Mexico, October 2011. A mysterious dream gives birth to Cuco, a transgender latex pirate activist. A manifesto is written, and a first appearance occurs in a French queer club. But Cuco is not just a night owl. In confronting transphobia and the current state of emergency, they join forces with other lives left behind. This essayistic film follows their quest to create more recognition for the queer community. The collective struggle takes the form of an unrestrained, shamanic black-and-white dance that crosses countries and continents.
Bio Hélène Alix Mourrier
Hélène Alix Mourrier (France, 1990) is a graphic designer and artist whose work revolves around queer and trans identities. In 2012, they joined the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and specialised in ceramics, installation, and performance. Hélène is a member of several militant collectives fighting for the queer community. They now teach graphic and editorial design while continuing their transdisciplinary practice as part of the inclusive typographic research collective Bye Bye Binary. In 2021, Mourrier produced their first short film Herman@s (Les Adelphes).
Released ten years after Cuco’s birth, Hélène Alix Mourrier’s oneiric documentary offers a rare and arresting insight into their way of being. Poetically narrated by “transgender, trans-species and transbird” Cuco Cuca themself, the film broadens the usual definition of the trans* identity to one that does away with notions of the corporeal body altogether. Juxtaposing images of solitary and collective resistance—in queer clubs, public protests, and through street art—this monochrome portrait of Cuco pays tribute to the queer activism they embody and the struggles that transgender people share with other marginalised groups.
Credits
Script
Cast
Cuco Cuca
Camera
Victor Zébo
Editor
Anaïs Van den Bussche
Sound
Arthur Moget
Music
Sentimental Rae
Producer
Anne Luthaud
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