Appolénus (movie)

Appolénus (movie)

  • Production country: France
  • Producer: Baptiste Lamy
  • Release date: 11/22/2000
  • Run time: 3 min.

Movie description

First film of the artist, Appolénus is a selfportrait in which he directed the beginnings of a debate on gender identity. From pictures of his childhood and shop windows exciting her femininity, he dresses gradually as a woman in front of a mirror, with music punctuated by agonizing laughter.Oscillation of an identity between Apollo and Venus, which ends with a gender reversal of of a famous painting.