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Filmmakers Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui capture the life and work of a unique creative talent in all his glorious anarchy in their new film, McQueen. Intimate one-on-one interviews with family, friends and colleagues, footage from his famed live runway shows and previously lost video of McQueen himself reveal an unmatched creative talent who expressed his darkest fantasies and greatest ambitions through his revolutionary clothing design and spectacular showings. Myths and stories from Yoruba folktales, Dante’s Inferno and the legend of Atlantis, as well as personal obsessions, ancestral history, dreams and nightmares, fears and desires all inform his singular artistic vision. Filtered through the crucible of his febrile imagination, an eclectic and visceral mix of movies, art, music, history, dance and technology provoke both scandal and ecstasy. Enthralled or repulsed, no one could look away — nor would they ever forget what they had witnessed.

Obscuro Barroco is a documentary-fiction about the dizzying heights of gender and metamorphosis. It is also a cinematographic hommage to a land of extremes; the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following the path of iconic transgender figure Luana Muniz (1961-2017), the film explores different quests for the self through transvestism, carnaval and political struggle. In turn, it asks questions about the desire for transformation of the body, both intimate and social. And it is our very capacity for metempsychosis that plays out in this film, this strange and unknown faculty through which our soul can move towards, through and inside other bodies. A true question of cinema, then.