Phaidros

Irreverent, provocative, reflective and, above all, performative. This film exposes, halfway through the theatrical and the cinematic, the Viennese queer scene in which the identities are stripped, deconstructed. The title refers allegorically to the Platonic dialogue of Phaedrus, a text that talks about the same themes that will be later on exhibited in The Symposyum: love and sex. The film repeats with light echoes and from a postmodern context, those metaphysical questions and at the same time visceral, Phaidros approaches an adaptation, or rather, an extravagant interpretation- inspiration of the meaning of passion, sex and sexuality. Everything in the film is, in its most literal sense, eccentric and excessive. Through dialogue and, often, monologue of the interpreters, new ways of questioning are opened: burlesque and daring ways that speak of sensuality and identity, but also of intersubjective relations and structures of power. PAULA LÓPEZ MONTERO