IDENTITIES

“I just don’t see any reason to be stuck in one category.”

IDENTITIES is another film which has been confirmed for britspotting 2009.

Vittoria Colonna’s first documentary takes a closer look at the multi-faceted Irish transgender community. Five narratives, in the form of black and white observational interviews, reveal the five character’s personal histories and experiences. Each story is preceded by a vibrant piece of performance art and offers us the opportunity to get a deeper understanding for transvestism and transsexualism. One of the characters we get to know is Lee, who underwent a sex change from female to male. How does his daughter Siobhan cope with her mother now being a man?

Vittoria Colonna’s sensitive, intimate debut had its premiere at the 53rd Corona Cork Film Festival. This year, it won the award for Best Documentary Film at the GAZE Film Festival and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties Human Rights Film Award. Budding filmmaker Colonna previously directed music videos, for example for Felix da Housecat. IDENTITIES is her latest work which attemps to break down the traditional, culturally constructed norms of gender and sexuality and shows that nowadays, sexuality on screen and in real life does not necessarily have to be fixed – it can be ambiguous, multilayered and changing.

IDENTITIES: November, 15 – 8:15 pm – Babylon

britspotting rewind: November, 16 – 6:00 pm – Babylon