{"id":31666,"date":"2021-12-02T09:03:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T08:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/?p=31666"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T08:04:30","slug":"como-loba-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilgrandecolibri.com\/en\/como-loba-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"“Como una Loba”: a Visual Journey Inside Transgender Arts in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Transforming from a man to a woman and looking perfect; that is
\nartistic. A man who puts on three pairs of eyelashes on his eyes, and
\nputs on breasts; that is artistic”
\nJairo Polo<\/p>\n

“Wearing high heels: that is the symbol of the drag artist! Having good high
\nheels and well-made-up lips”
\nShorell (Darwin Villa)<\/p>\n

“Now I am the person who is here in front of you …\u00a0I apply makeup on myself and start to erase those strong male facial features\u00a0that I have. I’m looking at myself, and the mirror is my friend.”
\nThael Osorio de la Rans<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The she-wolf is considered in many cultures as the initiator of a new process or civilization; the symbol of strength in battle, intelligence, transgression of prohibitions, and freedom<\/strong>; the queen of loving passion and sociability. In the mid-80s, an Argentinian singer, Valeria Lynch, let all these characteristics shine in her voice of a creature wounded by life experiences and a love that was ending.<\/p>\n

Those were the years when nightclubs were full of people willing to listen to the new hits from Madonna and Michael Jackson or the great divas of the time, heroines of the ironing songs. But it was also the moment of the massive diffusion of AIDS, and young and painful deaths, and at the same time of the fights for the affirmation of LGBTQIA+ rights<\/strong>, of which transsexuals, transgender people, crossdressers, and drag queens were the absolute protagonists.<\/p>\n

In that convulsive and at the same time extremely vital context, the first parades of the LGBTQIA+ community from Barranquilla<\/strong>, that gathered around the famous nightclub Troya In Bar, took place. In the beginning, the route used to be very short and often tarnished by physical attacks and insults targeted at the participants. Some important personalities of the collective developed, therefore, their artistic proposal in a homo\/transphobic general climate: Gustavo Turizo, La Nordika, Rosa Paulina, Cam\u00e9lica Stephania Nore\u00f1a, and Alfonso Su\u00e1rez Ciodaro exercised all their resilience and talent in works that will influence several generations of artists and performers.<\/p>\n

\"sexexposicionThe documentary<\/h2>\n

The documentary “Como una Loba<\/strong>” (Like a she-wolf), directed and produced by Danny Gonz\u00e1lez Cueto<\/strong>, with the collaboration of Colectivo Transmallo, Semillero Cuerpas, and the Feliza Bursztyn Research Group from the Atlantic University in Barranquilla, wants to pay tribute to that fight and those personalities who have left an indelible mark in the history of the art of drag at local and national levels.<\/p>\n

As a result of a rigorous source collection work and original formal experimentation of the images, the audiovisual proposal traces the history and present of the drag phenomenon related to the Barranquilla Carnival through their most representative voices.
\nIn its 34 minutes of running time, a series of audiovisual records alternate from the biennium 2016\/2017 until the most imminently recent years to constitute a vibrant archive of testimonials<\/strong>, points of view, and ideas in the experimental framework of the images that introduce and close the interviews.<\/p>\n