Body: Its Autobiography

Body: Its Autobiography

2020 · 41 min · Documentary

A documentary that shows a body in social and family isolation, but the distance is not caused by the coronavirus, but by being a transvestite. Renata Carvalho is a character of herself, her voice tells us the historicity/transcestrality of her body and the structural transphobia.

Directed by Renata Carvalho · Written by Renata Carvalho

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