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Passage extrait du livre “French queer cinema” de Nick Rees-Roberts
The political agenda of the radical movements such as the GAT attempts to free transgender from the domain prism of psychiatry. The community-produced documentary L’Ordre des mots (Cynthia and Mélissa Arra, 2007) likewise attacks the institutional straitjacket of psychiatry through lenghtly, in-depth interviews with some of the main French transgender activists. The documentary’s structure uses …en savoir +
Extrait du blog Regardailleurs
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Extrait du catalogue du Festival Academia Film Olomouc
Extrait du catalogue du Festival Academia Film Olomouc | AFO International Festival of Science Documentary Films (Olomouc, République Tchèque) – April 2011 “In the 1960s, a so-called linguistic turnaround occurred within the social sciences. What was at first a subtle movement is now an integral part of social science theories. Fifty years ago however, it …en savoir +
Extrait du catalogue du festival MosTran’s, festival de Cinema Trans i Intersex
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Review about “Binding Words / L’Ordre des mots” by Karine Espineira
Review about “Binding Words / L’Ordre des mots” by Karine Espineira (author of La transidentité. Paris : L’Harmattan, 2009) in the publication of the subject in the city (le sujet dans la cité) – May 09 A black screen. A voice. The expression “whore of trans !” to conclude these few seconds of total absence of …en savoir +
Extrait du catalogue du festival Cinemarges
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Extrait du catalogue du festival Netherland Transgender Film Festival
L’Ordre des Mots is a politically engaging and informative portrait of six transgender and intersex activists from France. Leaving behind the typical ‘explanation’ structure present in many documentaries on trans issues, these activists pointedly question France’s social history of medicalization that has secured the conventions of the gender binary. In telling their own stories of …en savoir +
Extrait du catalogue du festival Divergenti
Extrait du catalogue du festival Divergenti. Festival internazionale di cinema trans’ (Bolgna, Italy) – May 09 “Siete parte della razza umana se siete né un uomo né una donna?” Lo scopo di questo film è di dare alle persone ‘Trans’ un’altra possiblità di voce. Lontano dal classico trattamento delle questioni Trans, il film, attraverso la …en savoir +
Extrait du blog de Cerise Howard
Article extrait du blog de Cerise Howard suite à la projection du 19th Melbourner Queer Festival – March 09 But what would a MQFF be without at least one really angry, polemical genderqueer doco? L’Ordre des Mots (Binding Words,Cynthia Arra & Melissa Arra, 2007) fit that bill perfectly, introducing six highly articulate French intersex/genderfuck activists …en savoir +
Extrait du catalogue du festival Image+Nation
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Extrait du catalogue du festival Pink Screen
Does the word ’gender’ leave you cold? Does Judith Butler have the same effect on you as a Valium? Well don’t panic, here is an update. At the forefront of the debate and live from France, six portraits of fascinating trans / inter-sex / gender people illustrate in the flesh the ridiculously narrow limits of …en savoir +
Extrait du Blog de Psychokwak
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Extrait d’altersexualite.com, le blog de Lionel Labosse
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About Binding Words
Directed by Cynthia Arra & Mélissa Arra
Documentary / 2007 / France / 75’ / 4:3
The film aims to give Trans’ people whose quest for gender identity is fettered by established norms a chance to voice their tribulation. Their means of resistance consist of searching for tools of knowledge, for corporealities, sexualities and alternative identities to those of the conventional schemas. Far from the usual treatment of Trans issues, this film, through the choice of its portrait subjects – all contemporary actors and precursors of the Trans’and Intersex movement in France – addresses the gender identity issues head-on by questioning our often unchallenged societal norms and analyzing the nature of the oppression and repression faced by the Trans’ and Intersex community.
With Maud-Yeuse Thomas, Tom Reucher, Vincent Avrons, Vincent He-Say, Carine Boeuf and Vincent Guillot.
directors Cynthia Arra & Mélissa Arra
self-produced Cynthia Arra & Mélissa Arra
camera operators Cynthia Arra & Mélissa Arra
editing Cynthia Arra, Mélissa Arra & Justine Triet
music during crédits “Manifeste”, original soundtrack of the film “Exils” (Exiles) by Tony Gatlif
mix Christophe Doucet-Mimoun
color grading Sydney Teggbo & Sandra Sauron – toggle productions
english subtitles Paul Belle, Steve Arra & Marie-Hélène Bourcier
trailer Clémentine March
website Vincent He-Say
support for festival screening Digital Beta or DVD in French or in French with English subtitles