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Nederlandse TV-Docs
Dutch Television-Docs
The Netherlands has a long history in portraying transsexuals and transvestites on television. The media representation has been dominated by a heavily medical discourse that tends to assign transgender people to the role of victims. Features the finest examples from the Dutch television documentary tradition, the festival presents films that go beyond sensationalist representations of their subject.
LANG LEVE…/ LONG LIVE…
Michiel van Erp, NL, 2002, 39 min, video, in Dutch without subtitles
An episode from a series of portrait of ordinary and unique people. A lovely, simple and human picture of transvestites among their families, friends and colleagues.
30 MINUTEN: GEBOREN IN HET VERKEERDE LICHAAM/ BORN IN THE WRONG BODY
Pieter Kramer, NL 1995, 30 min, video, in Dutch without subtitles.
Episode from the famous and awarded series of fake documentaries by Arjen Ederveen and Pieter Kramer. A farmer from a remote part of Holland is convinced that he is originally from an African tribe in Zaire. A doctor decided to help him to transition into a black warrior.
ALS ZE MAAR GELUKKIG ZIJN… /ONLY IF THEY ARE HAPPY…
Bram van Splunteren, NL, 1998, 27 min, video, in Dutch spoken without subtitles.
Part 3 from the trilogy on contemporary relationship between youth and their parents. Nick has always felt awry in his body as a girl. His decision to make the transition to become a man not only shocked his parents who have never heard of transsexuality before, but also his parents’ community and their family doctor. It was the reverend that decided to include Nick in his Sunday speech one day to inform the community.
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