Film Installation
Rooted in the present, this folk/noise/noire musical brings together a crossdresser, a French country girl, and a fairy. Referencing jealousy, dysphoria, desire, and encaged sexuality/gender, the music conjures up deep repression through its slow but climatic progression. In the deathly, tortuous grip of the corsets exist the ideals and fantasies which morph the body. When the fairy enters the scene, she immediately assumes the role of arbiter of taste and fashion. Ultimately, this film is part of an investigation into the language and daily rituals of fashion and getting dressed, showing how thinking and feeling through all this can help emancipate us from historical or societal scripts.
Photos by Sander van Wettum, drawings by Fadi Houmani