Samira
Streaming video - 2013
A two-screen art-science installation presenting an ethnographic account of the life history of Karim, an Algerian migrant man selling sex as a travesti at night in Marseille. Karim left Algeria as a young man as his breasts started developing as a result of taking hormones. He was granted asylum in France as a transgender woman, Samira. Twenty years later, as his father is dying and he is about to become the head of the family Samira surgically removes her breasts and marries a woman in order to get a new passport allowing him to return to Algeria to assume his new role.. .Samira (2013) and its sister film-installation Travel (2016) are part of the Emborders art-science project questioning the effectiveness and scope of humanitarian initia...tives targeting migrant sex workers and sexual minority asylum seekers.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Documentary films
- Published
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kareron
2013.
2017. - Language
- English
- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image - Item Description
- Title from title frames.
In Process Record.
Film - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Playing Time
- 00:27:22
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).