Pirate Boys
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13m
by Pol Merchan • 2018 • Germany
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.
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Yarokamena
by Andrés Jurado • 2022 • Colombia, Portugal
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