Desire Lines
A movie by Jules Rosskam
USA, 2004, 83’
A hybrid film between fiction and documentary, that blends archival materials and narrative fiction to explore the often forgotten history of transgender men. Ahmad, an Iranian man who migrated to America during the AIDS epidemic, has hidden his identity for decades. At age sixty, he decides to go to the LGBTQ+ archives in Chicago, where he bonds strongly with Keiran, a young nonbinary archivist, who guides him through the LGBTQ+ world of the 1970s and 1980s. Mixing touching interviews by activist Lou Sullivan and imaginary encounters at cruising spots, Ahmad reimagines his youth as an openly gay trans man in an erotic journey of self-discovery and liberating desire.
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Tickets
Full price: 8€
Under30, Over65, Card Cultura: 5€
Reduced price: Unibo e Ababo: 3€
Tickets can be bought:
1) Online: on TicketSMS.it starting from october 2024.
2) At Gender Bender’s Festival Center: from 31 October to 11 November from 3.00pm to 9.00pm only and exclusively at the Gender Bender’s Festival Centre, set up at DAS – Dispositivo arti sperimentali in via del Porto 11/b.
*There will NOT be a ticket office at the event locations.
For more info: biglietteria@genderbender.it
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Jules Rosskam is an internationally award-winning trans filmmaker, educator and writer. Winner of the Creative Capital Award 2021. His most recent documentary, Paternal Rites (2018), premiered at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight and won numerous awards. He also directed Dance, Dance, Evolution (2019), Something to Cry About (2018), Thick Relations (2012), Against a Trans Narrative (2009), and Transparent (2005). His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Art and he is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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