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We are related are screening the Danish documentary film “Nobody Passes Perfectly” by Saskia Bisp.

Produced by Bullit film 2009. 45 minutes,
Friday November 26, 2010
19:00
Free admission

SYNOPSIS
”Nobody Passes Perfectly” is a subtle, humoristic and thought evoking film about the courage to change oneself radically. In beautiful filmic tableaux, debut director Saskia Bisp invites her audience to places where the gender isn’t a predefined condition, dictated only by biology, but a very personal part of the self that can be challenged, investigated and altered. Meet Tomka who is right in the middle of such a process. He lives in a very loving relationship with his Lesbian girlfriend Lotte. Together they try to imagine what his transitioning will mean for their relationship. And meet Erik, who was once a heterosexual woman, and has finally decided to live his life as a man.

DIRECTOR´S NOTE
I’ve been preoccupied with gender, body and sexuality issues for a long time, both from a political and an artistic point of view. A few years ago, when some of my friends started to change their gender identity, we had discussions about these issues from a feministic perspective. The idea came to me to try to transform some of those thoughts into a film. To me it is interesting what kind of man you choose to become if prior to that change you have been a lesbian and a feminist. And what happens with your perception of the personality when society constantly ”genders” you into something else than you are? What happens to your relationship when you start to change your gender identity? To me the most important thing is not whether you’ve had a cock made or not. I am more interested in the perception and creation of identity.

Saskia Bisp, July 2009

Here’s the flyers:

Ulrik Crone is showing his film “Mig og Jesper/Me and Jesper” at We are related.
58mins, 2008, Danish language, English subtitles.
Friday April 9 2010, 18-22.
Sankt Hans Gade 19
2200 N

There will be 2 screenings, at 19 and 21, and Ulrik will be around for some q&a after each screening.

Description (in Danish):
“En personlig historie om et vildt, humoristisk og meget anderledes hjertevarmt bekendtskab med rødder i punken og dens væsen.

I de tidlige firsere fandt punken vej til det grå København.
Helt tæt på scenen fandt man Jesper Reisinger, som en af de intellektuelle bannerførere for tidsånden.
Jesper illustrerede og skrev et utal af anarkistiske, begejstrede artikler, spillede i bandet No Knox og fyrede den alt i alt grundigt af.
Så tog stofferne overhånd og en dag forsvandt Jesper pludseligt fra punkscenen og fra verden generelt.
Ulrik Crone forblev hans kontakt til omverdenen, og 20 år senere vender Jesper modstræbende tilbage til livet og minderne.”

AOK on Mig og Jesper
Ulrik Crone’s website