Synopsis
It Gets Better
Identity is an experimental short film about gender fluidity, memory, and transformation.
Directed by Behdad Esfahbod
Identity is an experimental short film about gender fluidity, memory, and transformation.
Enjoy the dance.
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Pride month 2025 saw the release of the independent film “Identity”. Symbolism and prose depict the narrator’s journey - blurred images become focused, awakening viewers to a multi-faceted existence where we explore the confluence of introspection and consciousness as an intwined metamorphosis. Thematically this film dissects gender norms by stripping down to basic body elements, where the human skull recurs as awareness and body elements emblematize connectedness and transfiguration.
The individual symbols are then replaces by the live evolution and uncovering of the whole person, exposed by shedding outworn layers. The turnstile effect that was previously employed to enlighten to the multi-facetted nature of each object, reveals the wholeness of the narrator's transcendence. And when fully actualized at the final…