Wicked Queer 37

US PREMIERE

El viaje de Monalisa

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

2019

The Journey of Monalisa

El viaje de Monalisa

Thursday

Apr 8

@

12:00 am

With in person.

Wicked Queer 37

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

The Journey of Monalisa

Thursday

,

Apr 8

@

12:00 am

With in person.

Wicked Queer 37

US PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

The Journey of Monalisa

Thursday

Apr 8

@

12:00 am

Xerb.tv

With 
 in person.
After 17 years, Nicole Costa gets in touch with Iván Ojeda, her old Chilean friend from college. Back then he was a talented theater director and playwright, but it turns out he has reinvented himself. Iván now goes by Monalisa and works as a prostitute on the streets of New York. Intrigued by this transformation, Costa decides to follow Iván Monalisa, a “gender-neutral two-spirit,” in their tough and vulnerable life filled with fleeting sexual encounters and addiction to hard drugs. Nonetheless, Monalisa does continue to write beautiful, raw pieces about life and survival in New York. Recent scenes of Monalisa’s attempts to get a visa and her first successes as a writer are interspersed with old VHS footage, snippets of telephone conversations and extracts from her work. All this is framed by scenes of Monalisa proudly parading through the streets of New York—a living artwork searching in the shadows for the light of self-expression.
Director
Nicole Costa
Year
2019
Run Time
93
min
Country
Chile
Language
Spanish
PROGRAM Time
minutes
Content warning:
After 17 years, Nicole Costa gets in touch with Iván Ojeda, her old Chilean friend from college. Back then he was a talented theater director and playwright, but it turns out he has reinvented himself. Iván now goes by Monalisa and works as a prostitute on the streets of New York. Intrigued by this transformation, Costa decides to follow Iván Monalisa, a “gender-neutral two-spirit,” in their tough and vulnerable life filled with fleeting sexual encounters and addiction to hard drugs. Nonetheless, Monalisa does continue to write beautiful, raw pieces about life and survival in New York. Recent scenes of Monalisa’s attempts to get a visa and her first successes as a writer are interspersed with old VHS footage, snippets of telephone conversations and extracts from her work. All this is framed by scenes of Monalisa proudly parading through the streets of New York—a living artwork searching in the shadows for the light of self-expression.
This film is presented in
Spanish
with English subtitles.
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