En quête de non-binarité : regards filmés sur les films qui nous montrent
Movies produced by main companies in the film industry make it possible to represent multiple identities through the characters shown, and to spread them widely to diverse audiences (through television channels, movie theatres, online broadcasting platforms). In this research-creation project, I look at the representations in so-called “main stream” movies of people’s identities identifying outside of a gender binary, and in particular the visibility of people identifying as non-binary.  I see a lack of representation of transgender and non-binary identities in mainstream films and series, compared to my own experience with the diversity of identities in queer and LGBTQ+ communities. To take into account the impressions of people within a wide range of gender identities, I recorded and filmed through Zoom discussions with nine persons from my close environment, in order to use their testimonies in my research work. In those discussions, they share their opinions, their experiences and their movie references for me to use as a complement to theoretical research in fields such as feminist studies, gender studies and community-specific work studying power relations against them (mainly Crip Studies, Trans Studies, Black Studies). I then linger on examples provided by the characters taken from some of the films and a Tv serie quoted in the interviews. I analyze some of the linguistic expressions used in these films as well as the representations of the characters, in order to compare them to the actual speeches of the communities affected by these representations. The interviews were edited as to form a collection of testimonies illustrating the importance for my interlocutors of finding faithful representations of their identities onscreen.
queer oppression systemique representation transidentite trans research-creation feminism gender identity non-binary systemic oppression normativity transidentity