Pirate Boys

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.

NOMINATION
10. 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