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double bill #14
Pirate Boys
Ann Arbor Film Festival
2019
Queer Lisboa
2019
Punk author Kathy Acker’s work is the starting point for a conversation about gender identity and body transformation and is linked to the punk movement of the 1970s and 1980s. This hybrid mix of documentary, fiction, photography, and literature aims to portray the plasticity of the cinematic body in a new way and explores traces of queerness in Acker’s work.
Mainstream discourses around the world define people in an unquestionable binary system. Pirate Boys and Atopia are both empowering and radical in showing how narrow these normative constructions are and how flexible and fluid gender is. Pol Merchan’s hybrid documentary moves smoothly from documentation of the punk era to a performative exploration of gender. The words of intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano describe transformative and self-determined bodies, souls, and scars.
Credits
Script
Pol Merchan
Cast
Del LaGrace Volcano, Eric Llaveria, Henri Steeg, Mat S., Mercedes Povedano, Pol Merchan, Ruvel Kovalevsky
Camera
Nadja Krüger, Zara Zandieh
Editor
Ginés Olivares
Sound
Gizem Oruç, Manuela Schininà
Music
Manuela Schininà
Producer
Nika Pecarina