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PHAG OFF - METROSEXUAL REPRESENTATIONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY MOVIE AGE.

The “Phag off” section develops a path through all the independent movie productions whose interest is to propose a prismatic, experimental, conflictual, vangardist and frontier perspective about contents like gender and sexual orientations historically contextualized in the contemporary moment. This visual space is proposed as an annual syntesis of all the contents and the networks elaborated inside Phag Off with a special focus on the Canadian independent movie scene and with a special link to the “Gender Bender Festival” in Bologna. Phag Off proposes this work with a queer/underground perspective as a double approach: Critical penetration of power relationships inside the G.l.b.t. community; accent on body and desire representations and desymbolization practices. The ideas of boundary, frountier, conflict are “shooted” with a strong provocative, ironical, politically uncorrect, iconoclastic approach to deconstruct some ideologies substained by a new g.b.l.t./gendered moralism based on the istituzionalization of gender and sexual orientation political conflicts. Phag Off is interested in shadows, this is why it lights with a visual projection all the invisible zones, the freak scenarios, the deviant imaginaries that do not recognise themselves in the gay mainstream and that lives identity as a break imposed to liberation processes. This year “Phag Off” will host an undersection dedicated to fabulous furry freak world of “Bears”. Its name is “Bears on Film” and we are not talking about a National geographics documentary here but a deep excursus inside a homosexual culture which expresses itself around the definition, representation and desymbolization of male gender through a multiple series of esthetical, cultural social and sexual codes. The undersection proposes furry big hot connection with the Spanish and Canadian independent movie scenes.