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A powerful and evocative experimental documentary about a young person's conflict between the desire to transition, and passion for swimming on a women's college team. Ambient sound (the tuning of a piano) builds with the emotional pitch of the storytelling, and serves as an aural template...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Knapp, Lucretia (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: San Francisco, CA : Frameline, 2006.
Series:LGBT studies in video
Subjects:
Female-to-male transsexuals.
Gender nonconformity.
Transsexuals.
Transsexuels.
Transgenrisme.
Transsexuals
Female-to-male transsexuals
Gender nonconformity
documentary film.
Feature films
Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Short films
Short films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Courts métrages.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:A powerful and evocative experimental documentary about a young person's conflict between the desire to transition, and passion for swimming on a women's college team. Ambient sound (the tuning of a piano) builds with the emotional pitch of the storytelling, and serves as an aural template for an evocative editing style. Sequences of self-reflection are inter-cut with stunning underwater images of Calvin, a young FTM, swimming in a "swimming suit." The video is thoughtfully constructed, allowing the viewer to reflect upon perception, double entendres and visual codes.
Physical Description:1 online resource (15 min.).