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Contact:merchan.pol@gmail.com
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Photo Del LaGrace Volcano
Pirate Boys
Photo Pol Merchan
Pirate Boys
Photo 2018 Pol Merchan
Pirate Boys
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merchan.pol@gmail.com
vimeo.com/259856140
Pirate Boys
Synopsis
Kathy Acker's writing, and a seminal portrait of her taken by intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, provide a lens through which to explore trans subjectivity and the queering of cinema. Pol Merchan's hybrid doc fluidly moves from the documentation of the punk era to a more performative exploration of gender.Cast & Crew
- DirectorPol Merchan
- ProducerPol Merchan
- ScreenwriterPol Merchan
- Director of photography
- Actor
- Editor (Cut)
- Original Score
Festivals/awards
NOMINATION10. Lichter Art Award, Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International
SCREENING HISTORY
25th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (Official Selection) - Toronto, Canada - 2018
64. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (German Competition) - Oberhausen, Germany - 2018
13th XPOSED International Queer Film Festival – Berlin, Germany - 2018
46th Huesca International Film Festival (Official Selection) - Huesca, Spain - 2018
21st Festival Internacional de Cine Guanajuato (Official Selection) - Guanajuato, Mexico - 2018
29th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival (Official Selection) - Sao Paulo, Brasil - 2018
34th International Short Film Festival Berlin - Berlin, Germany - 2018
25th Barcelona Independent Film Festival l'Alternativa - Barcelona, Spain - 2018
3hd Film Festival - Berlin, Germany - 2018
Kuir Bogotá - Festival de cine queer – Bogotá, Colombia - 2018
16ᵗʰ London Short Film Festival - London, England - 2019
Black Box, Beursschouwurg – Brussels, Belgium - 2019
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - Clermont Ferrand, France - 2019
57th Ann Arbor Film Festival (Official Selection) - Ann Arbor, US - 2019
Zinegoak Bilbao lgtb Film Festival (Official Selection) - Bilbao, Spain - 2019
BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival (Official Selection) - London, UK - 2019
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (Video Library) - Paris/Berlin - 2019
Mecal Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival (Official Selection) - Barcelona, Spain - 2019
Edinburgh International Film Festival - Edinburgh, Scotland - 2019
46th Athens International Film + Video Festival - Ohio, US - 2019
International Women's Film Festival - Dortmund, Germany - 2019
Outview Film Festival - Athens, Greece - 2019
Queer Film Festival Glasgow - Glasgow, Scotland - 2019
Queer Lisboa - International Queer Film Festival (Official Selection) - Lisbon, Portugal - 2019
Los Angeles Filmforum - Los Angeles, US - 2019
Antimatter (media art) - Victoria, Canada - 2019
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest - London, UK - 2019
White Frame - Basel, Switzerland - 2019
MIX Copenhagen LGBTQ+ Film Festival - Copenhagen, Denmark - 2019
Representation of leaving / Queer death and heavens - Anthology Film Archives - NY, US - 2019
XIII Edición de Zinentiendo, Muestra de cine LGTBQI - Zaragoza, Spain - 2019
Dortmund|Cologne Int. Women’s Film Festival - Dortmund, Germany - 2019
Queer Desire and Revolt XPOSED Short Films, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany - 2021
48. Molodist International Film Festival - Kiew, Ucraine - 2021
Xposed Film Festival at Queer Film Kassel - Kassel, Germany - 2021
Dresden Film Festival - Dresden, Germany - 2022
Cellu l'art Short Film Festival - Jena, Germany - 2022
Otherness Archive - Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest - London, UK - 2021
Rosa Kwir - Whose Museum Series - Malmö, Sweden - 2022
Biography
Pol Merchan was born in Lleida, Spain, in 1980. In 2007, he obtained a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and in 2014 an MA in Art in Context from the Berlin University of Arts. Merchan lives and works in Berlin as an artist and filmmaker. His work has been seen internationally in art galleries and museums including Museo Reina Sofía - Madrid, Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona, Àngels Barcelona Gallery, Art Centre of La Panera - Lleida, Contemporary Art Centre - Vilnius, District Kunst und Kulturförderung - Berlin, Kunstraum Bethanien - Berlin, as well as at numerous Internationally Film Festivals such Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Int. Kurz Fillmtage Oberhausen, Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Kurz Filmfestival Köln, International Short Film Week Regensburg, Festival Cine Independiente L’Alternativa Barcelona, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, International Queer Film Festival Lisboa or MIX NYC - New York Queer Experimental Film Festival.Cast & Crew
Pol MerchanPol Merchan
Pol Merchan
Zara Zandieh, Nadja Krueger
Del LaGrace Volcano, Pol Merchan, Eric Llaveria, Henri Steeg, Ruvel Kovalevsky
Ginés Olivares
Manuela Schininá
