Pol Merchan

Movies

The Garden of Fauns
Director
Nazario, founder of the Spanish underground comics movement and pioneer of the gay graphic novel, looks back on his eventful life, his flamboyant and explicit works. 16mm films, photos, illustrations and paintings document the spirit of departure of a counter culture, but also recount Nazario’s great love for Alejandro with whom he was together until the latter’s death. Profession and passion merge in this artist.
Pirate Boys
Director
Kathy Acker's writing, and a seminal portrait of her taken by intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, provide a lens through which to explore trans subjectivity and the queering of cinema. Pol Merchan's hybrid doc fluidly moves from the documentation of the punk era to a more performative exploration of gender.
Familiar Memories
Director
A father is placed at the center of the image, staging himself in front of the camera as a smug tyrant.
Neurosex3
Consulting Producer
In an alternative reality, people have brain implants that give them access to encoded physiological experiences from other bodies. These implants allow people to obtain information from the brain through monitoring or scanning, and also to send information to the brain in the form of neuro-codes. The neurosex-codes are programmed to provide the user with any imaginable sexual experience by any kind of body, regardless of genitalia or any other physical difference. This third film from the Neurosex Pornoia series explores the neuroanarchoqueer community and state laboratories that are running medical experiments.