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 was a revolution, and it caused a significant change in the research into language and its impact on everyday life in society. The attention of the theorists started to move from the grammar of language, which was seen as a mere static structure of language code, to language as a socially generated code, which has a considerable influence on the construction of the world in which we operate. Language was no longer studied simultaneously as a mere means of exchanging information between two or more people but as an important factor in the construction of the outside world. Scientists started to examine what happens when we use one particular word rather than another; why, how and for what purpose we name something just so and not otherwise; what will happen when we call a man such and such, or even what happens when we don’t give something a name at all. This documentary by Cynthia and Melissa Arra demonstrates through examples of intersexuality and transsexuality what happens when there are no words for someone or something, or when someone or something is assigned a different or incorrect word.”