US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
1983
Dressed In Blue
Saturday
Jul 11, 1992
@
7:00 pm
8th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

Antonio Giménez Rico’s stunning portrait documents the lives of six transgender women living in 1980s Madrid during Spain’s post-Franco makeover into a constitutional monarchy. Through wide-ranging conversations and interviews, the women discuss their experiences of nightlife, family, sex work, the legal system, and their personal narratives of transition. In a historical moment that witnessed a dramatic expansion of legal rights and political representation, their stories are an indictment of the repressive, transphobic institutions that remain entrenched in Spanish society. Featured in the hit series Veneno and the subject of a book-length history by Valeria Vegas, this provocative but nuanced portrayal joins a wave of rediscovered and reconsidered documents of trans lives in cinema.
For all of those who think they've heard all they want to about drag and its Zen, along comes Dressed In Blue to shed new light on a topic familiar to gay audiences. Set in Madrid, this eye-opening documentary concerns six transvestites who have moved to the city in order to change their gender and live a "modern life." Includes a striking scene of silicone implant surgery . Not for the squeamish!
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