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Gender Trouble In this thought-provoking and moving documentary, four intersex women tell their stories with bravery and candour. Melissa, Mary, Barbara and Sara speak openly for the first time about their hermaphrodism and the secrecy surrounding their conditions and lives. These eloquent and unmediated accounts lead us to question society's binary construction of gender and our understanding of what is considered the norm. The four women are positioned against beautiful yet unsettling images of family photographs, orchids and formal gardens. These images seamlessly morph and transform, perpetually moving and changing thus creating a dynamic rhythm to the film: restless and unstable. This juxtaposition of landscape and personal narrative creates a dialogue between exteriority and interiority that reflects the conflicts both society and subject face when considering the complexities of gender. In GENDER TROUBLE, Roz Mortimer has constructed an experimental documentary that raises many complex emotions and issues that go beyond the physiological conditions of intersex (gender, chromosomes, sex). This film raises questions about gender and identity; medical and social labelling of people; power relationships between patients and doctors (and parents and children); and the potential impact of narrative, emotion and image in medical science. Produced and directed by Roz Mortimer 
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Links to Intersex Support Groups: www.aissg.org www.ahn.org.uk Distribution in India: www.magiclanternfoundation.org Distribution in North America: www.7thart.com Publications in English and German are available with essays about this film  |
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