Arts
Reviews of movies, theatre and other art activities, which are relevant for trans people.
Paris in flames
This is a documentary that seeks to penetrate the trans community of New York's lower classes, through dance competitions (ball) which were undertaken at the mid-eighties, at the end of the "golden age".
The intense drama of a transexual
“Life” program recovers some of the documentaries which had more impact at the time. The depth of the story of a transsexual bring the drama for living in a body which doesn´t belong.
She lived in a body that did not belong
National Television from Chile in its "Life" has shown the story of Vicky Yáñez, Radiography of a change," the life of a transsexual woman, activist for the rights of trans people, who underwent a sex reassignment operation.
Frau in the Warehouse
The warehouse is a place for dissemination of new bets and approaches looking for aesthetics, new subjects, new dimensions of visual and theatrical art.
Alondra. The story of a transsexual.
Barcelona, 2006
Pep Bonet’s photographs
It is difficult to show what people don’t want to see, and even more, to understand it and find beauty in it. We are faced with an overwhelming situation, it shouldn’t be just an exercise of commiseration and condescendence, but a challenge to our capacity to understand (or not) the different ways in which each person finds their own self, and distinguish it from the responsibility which we have as world citizens towards the society in which we live, towards the present and the future we are helping to build: its assets and its atrocities.
Earning a living as a trans man
The documentary is presented in two parts in which Coli Fernández tells us about his work experience.
Transamerica
The movie is interesting because show some situations that trans population had to suffer but it is only present the reality of upper-class and not the hard difficulties that most of this population had to deal with.
The place with no limits
This movie is one of the representation in which lived Trans people that we hadn’t notice before and now we could recover for the fights of transsexuals, transgender and transvestite people for their human rights.
The Empire strikes back. Machismo in Roses of steel
Roses of steel, is a documental of Felipe Degregori, it explore transvestite’s life in the city of Lima. Between their testimonies, this documental give us information about conditions in which transvestite people live.
