Die FilmAG zeigt um 20:00 Uhr c.t. in Raum E 006 im HGB:

TRANSFICTION

von Johannes Sjöberg UK 2007, 58 min, portugiesisch omeU

Transfiction explores 'ethnofiction' - an experimental ethnographic documentary film style in which the participants collaborate with the filmmaker to act out their own and others' life experiences in improvisations. The film focuses on identity and discrimination in the daily lives of transgendered Brazilians living in São Paulo and is based on a total fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork. During the production of the film, transsexuals (males-females) and travestis from the fieldwork in São Paulo act out their cultural experiences in front of the camera in improvisations. Even if all of the protagonists of the ethnofiction can be said to represent transsexual and travesti culture in São Paulo, they have very different backgrounds.Some of them are married and live typical Paulista middleclass lives. Others are poor and earn their living as prostitutes. Some of them have gained success as stage artists in the show business of São Paulo. The film also gives some examples of transsexuals and travestis fightingagainst intolerance and discrimination in the Brazilian society: Fabia Mirassos projects her life through the role of Meg, a transsexual hairdresser confronting intolerance and re-living memories of abuse. Savana 'Bibi' Meirelles plays Zilda who makes her living as one of the many transgendered sex workers in São Paulo, as she struggles to find her way out of prostitution.

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(Quellen: www.faktafiktion.se, www.imdb.com)

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