Porpora Marcasciano
Actor
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Movie7.5DocumentaryA journey into the largest and oldest transgender community in Europe — that of Naples — told through the voices of six femmenelle, suspended between centuries-old rituals and contemporary tensions.
Movie5.6DocumentaryHistoryItaly, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.
Movie5.9DocumentaryIt often happens that at the moment of death, transgender individuals are shorn of their identity. Their families are ashamed, the funeral takes place in secret, and on the tomb appears the name the deceased had before their transition, in one stroke nullifying the entire life path they had chosen. The same thing happened to Antonia. Her girlfriends gather to honor her memory and give her back her identity denied. In telling her story, the film’s stars, all drawn from the variegated transgender world, interweave the narrative with tales of their own lives, experiences, and memories.
MovieDocumentaryBearing witness to the transition from woman to man that the director experienced between the late 1990s and 2005. Cangelosi began working on the project thinking of it as a kind of visual diary that would follow him step by step through his own physical and psychological transformation. The film, reimagined in editing at the end of the director’s personal story, reconstructs it by interweaving it with part of the historical events and political struggles that have taken place within Italian society over the past two decades.
Movie1.0DocumentaryPoet and writer Antonio Veneziani, the youngest representative of the Scuola Romana literary current, which was championed by Pasolini and Moravia and included counter-culture artists such as Dario Bellezza and Renzo Paris, is writing a book of interviews with transsexual people. As he meets with people from varied and sometimes contrasting paths of life, he also begins a quest to find where his late friend Vinicio Diamanti, a well known actor who has often performed in drag, has been buried. A meditation on Life, Death and the need for a new law in Italy through the prism of the trans-gender experience.