Lady – (USA, 1993)

Camp portrait of a performer. Este oare ea o femeie care joacă rolul unui bărbat gay care joacă rolul unei femei?

Written and performed by Dominique Dibbell (of the Five Lesbian Brothers), „Lady” is gender confusion at its best! The exact identity of Lady’s red-headed protagonist is hard to pin down. Is she a woman playing a man playing a woman, or, more specifically, a lesbian playing a gay man playing a heterosexual woman? The juxtaposition of various cinematic styles in the film, from quasi-’70s variety to home movies to a more distanced black and white, adds to the sense of a character continually redefining herself. This purposeful ambiguity–who is the lad in the red wig?–invites the audience to question the blurred parameters of sexuality, desire and what it means to be a woman.

In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents – (USA, 2005)

POVESTIRI DESPRE COPII CU PĂRINŢI G/L/B/T **  –  In a time when LGBT families are debated and attacked in the media, courts and Congress, from school houses to state houses across the country, five young people who are children of LGBT parents give you a chance to walk in their shoes – to hear their own views on marriage, making change, and what it means to be a family. This film was produced by the COLAGE Youth Leadership and Action Program and directed by Jen Gilomen.

” Sacramento Bee, October 2, 2005
“In My Shoes is an earnest, traditional 30-minute documentary focused on the children of same-sex couples. Told through the eyes and voices of the kids, it turns the political gay-marriage issue into the personal by showing that these are happy, well-adjusted kids being raised by caring adults.”

 

Red without Blue – (USA, 2007)

Legătura intimă dintre doi gemeni este testată  ca niciodată până atunci când unul dintre cei doi fraţi decide să devină femeie. Aceasta este povestea emoţionantă a tranziţiei de la bărbat la femeie, a evoluţiei relaţiei dintre cei doi, a unor aspecte obscure din trecutul familiei lor.

RED WITHOUT BLUE is an artistic and groundbreaking examination of gender, identity, and the unswerving bond of twinship despite transformation. An honest portrayal of a family in turmoil, RWB follows a pair of identical twins as one transitions from male to female. Captured over a period of three years, the film documents the twins and their parents, examining the Farleys’ struggle to redefine their family. The twins’ early lives were quintessentially all-American: picture-perfect holidays, supportive parents who cheered them on every step of the way. By the time they were 14, their parents had divorced, they had come out as gay, and a joint suicide attempt precipitated a forced separation of Mark and Alex for two and half years. Through candid and extensive interviews with the twins and their family, RED WITHOUT BLUE recounts these troubled times, interweaving the twins’ difficult past with their efforts to find themselves in the present. The film follows the painful steps of Clair’s… Written by Director, RED WITHOUT BLUE

Drawing Out the Demons: A Film About the Artist Attila Richard Lukacs – (Canada, 2004)

Notorious bad-boy painter Attila Richards Lukacs got the lyrics to Leonard Cohen’s famous song backwards when he moved from Berlin to take over Manhattan. But if conquering New York was on his agenda, what he finds instead is a harrowing journey through hell. His plans to rule the world’s toughest art scene take a back seat to an artistic mid-life crisis and a drug addiction.  His world upside down, will Attila’s gift for painting be strong enough to pull him from the brink of disaster?  Drawing Out The Demons unflinchingly brings the audience to one mans’ hazardous crossroad of destiny, where Attila is sure to meet either greatness, or death.

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Attila Richard Lukacs

Born in Calgary in 1962. Lives and works in Vancouver.

„Attila Richard Lukacs famously combines reverence and irreverence in his large-scale paintings.  Lukacs graduated from Vancouver’s Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1985 and a year later moved to West Berlin, where he would stay for a decade and make his name. Part of a group of artists known in the 1980s as the Young Romantics, Lukacs used the lauded chiaroscuro of Caravaggio and the flattened planes and gold leaf of symbolist painters like Gustav Klimt to create startling works depicting homosocial and, often, blatantly homoerotic scenes. The skinheads of 1980s West Germany were of particular interest to Lukacs, who used the men of this subculture as his studio models. Lukacs moved to New York in 1996 and to Hawaii in 2001, eventually resettling in Vancouver, where he currently lives. Later series, exhibited extensively and internationally, have depicted primates and flora, while even more recent works have veered into abstraction and installation. A 2008 exhibition, accompanied by a monograph, displayed a number of the Polaroids Lukacs took of his studio models in Berlin and New York, a body of work stored and catalogued by artist Michael Morris. Lukacs’s work has been collected by the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Vancouver Art Gallery, among other institutions.”