YOU CAN’T GET WHAT YOU WANT BUT YOU CAN GET ME
Netherlands, Finland | 2024 | 13 min | col.
A love story between two trans individuals – Samira Elagoz and Z Walsh – told in a slideshow of screenshots, posed photographs, and captured instants. Enough to describe this short film that, in its intimate nature reminiscent of a diary, seems to belong to a private archive. But of all private stories, love, owing to its relational, desiring nature, is the most exquisitely political. In a relationship, it may happen that, while you become the focus of the other’s desire, you’re lucky enough to undergo a transformation that is also a return to yourself. If the trans-body is a continuous battleground in a heteronormated society, all the more love becomes the place in which arms are laid down. A self-portrait of bodies in love in whose perimeter coexist blood, wounds, the fine sand of a beach, a bride’s veil, nostalgia, and tenderness. (t.p.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 06 Nov 2024
- Time: 15:00
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh
Samira Elagoz is a Finnish/Egyptian transmasculine artist. He has toured in various international film, visual art, and performance contexts, and won several awards, including Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale Teatro in 2022. His films have premiered at IDFA and IFFR. Z Walsh is a Brooklyn-based transmasculine artist focusing on photography. He has produced and photographed unique campaigns for brands such as Milk Makeup and Calvin Klein and photographed many renowned artists like trans icon McKenzie Wark. Throughout his work, Z is dedicated to elevating trans voices and combating transmasculine erasure.
