Title
The Gap
Director
Kim Anja Schicklang
Country
Germany
Cast
Marie Fischer,
Folkert Dücker,
Dorothea Baltzer,
Werner Braunschädel,
Bernd Straub
Production
Christina Schieferdecker
Distribution
Kimschicklang
Genre
Drama
Duration
101'
Year
2014
Festivals
Jakarta (Best Movie)
First showing in
Spain
TRANS SCREEN
The Gap is one of the most interesting recent arthouse movies on the subject of transsexuality, an excellent work in terms of both narrative and aesthetic values.
Alex feels that, in the world she lives in, she does not exist, she's just a "gap", a hole... Through texts by philosophers like Marcuse, Sartre, Foucault and Erich Fromm, as well as the main character's own thoughts, we enter Alex's emotional and rational world, trying to understand not only her own relationship with her gender, but also the political and social influences that torment her.
(*) Film screened in the framework of OPEN, a film project that aims to provide a special and participatory event once a month, with a film and a discussion on LGBT cinema.