She Male Snails (2012)
Synopsis
Caught between two genders, the artist Eli Leven and Ester Martin Bergsmark touch and caress each other, while they bath together in clouds of steam. A persuasive voice-off describes the often hard and painful growing process, which led them to choose to be neither males nor females. But something else entirely. While memories of adolescences scarred by homophobia and discrimination are presented, the audience is also captivated by poetic evocations of bodies, of snowy woods, water, nature, and snails: the symbol of androgyny. This movie moves the audience profoundly. It is a hymn to sexual fluidity, which reveals the search for the true self, rendered through the use of contrasting, vivid, and often acid bright photography. Intended as a television portrait of the transgender artist Eli Leven, it is a psychedelic docu-fiction, a hybrid movie inspired by Derek Jarman's Sebastian.
Release Date: 2012-02-02
Runtime: 75 minutes
Director: Ester Martin Bergsmark
Top Cast
- Ester Martin Bergsmark as Self
- Varg Holmdahl as Pojktant in snow
- Eli Levén as Self
- Theo Walther as Pojktant by bonfire
- Josef Waldfogel as Boy
Soundtrack
Original Music Composer(s): N/A
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