Overview
En pojke deals with masculinity as a regulatory identity that still manages to suppress the way a person creates, falls in love or has sex. Under the power of patriarchy every other, subversive, gender behavior seems sometimes like it is bound to suffocate.
En pojke(a boy), deals with the privileges that become burdens. The privilege of being a creator. The privilege of being able to penetrate. The privilege of being a seeker/hunter.
The video was an attempt to put myself in the most vulnerable place in order to see and accept my lack of importance. The imposed masculinity.
En pojke deals with masculinity as a regulatory identity that still manages to suppress the way a person creates, falls in love or has sex. Under the power of patriarchy every other, subversive, gender behavior seems sometimes like it is bound to suffocate. It is an autobiographical confession from a male feminist perspective that would prefer gender was sexless.
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Previous Festival Screenings:
27th Mix NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, 2014, New York
Director’s bio:
Alkis Papastathopoulos was born in 1991 and grew up in Greece. For the last
seven years he’s been making fiction and experimental films many of which
travelled abroad in several film festivals. The queer thematics are more or less
always present in his work.
En pojke (A Boy)
Country: Greece
Production: 2013
Director: Alkis Papastathopoulos
Duration: 6’
