A paper bag, a school hallway, and a question: who gets to decide who you are?
How do we represent the ideas of gender? This short reflects about this topic, as we see an unidentified character, suited up, and with a paper bag over his head, walking down the hallway of its high school.
Direction
Vidal turns a hallway into an entire gender battlefield.
Costume
The paper bag: cheap prop, devastating metaphor.
Director
Álvaro Vidal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2014, this predates mainstream trans cinema's 2018 watershed — making its bluntness even more radical.
The 'extra' in the bathroom isn't incidental — their presence forces the question of who performs gender for whom.
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