Director
Eva and ramona met in the summer of 71’ as 10-year-olds on the former GDR. They formed a lifelong friendship between east and west. Later, their friendshop was banned by the stasi.
Director of Photography
Cuando Andreas y Sebastian se conocen, saben que están hechos el uno para el otro. En plena borrachera de amor, toman la ciudad vacía en verano: hurtos en el 7-Eleven, bailes en azoteas, baños furtivos, noches eufóricas. Pero a Andreas, heterosexual, le cuesta asumir su amor por el andrógino Sebastian, pues en su frágil feminidad, no deja de ser un hombre. Y, como dice la canción de Joy Division que da título al film, algo debe romperse: “Dos caminos a elegir / ante el filo de una navaja / quédate atrás / o impúlsate adelante”. (FILMAFFINITY)
Cinematography
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.
