Prototypes

In 2015, PROTOTYPES was the winner of the very first XPOSED Queer Short Film Fund. Four years later, this project has developed into a stunning example of innovative cinema.

Doireann O’Malley’s film PROTOTYPES brings together transgender studies, science fiction, biopolitics, psychoanalysis, artificial intelligence and experimental music. O’Malley skillfully ties these to phantoms of modernist utopias, epitomized by the postwar architecture of Berlin, which serves as a dreamlike scenography for the main protagonists’ ghostly actions. The work combines glimpses of the future with (unfulfilled) promises of the past. The artist goes through an in-depth process of understanding female-to-male transitioning from psychiatric, linguistic, and medical perspectives.

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