We Have Never Been Modern w/pre-film short Seahorse Parents

Director: Matej Chlupacek

117min.

Language: Czech with English subtitles

Pre-film short Seahorse Parents.

We will be joined by subjects of the film Liam and Alex with a Q&A moderator Clare McCarthy of the Transqat podcast.

Directed by: Miriam Guttmann (b. 1994) is an Amsterdam-based documentary director and photographer. In her work, Miriam aims to broach sensitive subjects, such as identity, parent-child relationships, sexuality, and social injustice. Through her open attitude she strives to demonstrate the nuances of her subjects in a society prone to black-and-white thinking, to create empathy and relatability. Her three-part series Seeds of Deceit was selected for the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, Prix Europa and was broadcast on Dutch television by the VPRO (2021).

 

Together with her husband she came to build a utopian world in the middle of pure nature. Helena, the pregnant wife of the factory manager, is about to give birth and her family is facing a rosy future in a modern city. But all her illusions will soon perish. All it takes is the dead body of a newborn hermaphrodite to be found in the middle of their factory. Helena needs to find out what happened here for the safety of her own child, but she runs into her own prejudices. The story is inspired by the true story of intersex people in the 1930s, shortly before the war destroyed everything.