AVANT-DRAG!

《前卫变装》以令人兴奋的方式展现了十位雅典变装表演者，他们解构了性别、民族主义、归属感、身份认同，同时面临着警方的残暴、变性恐惧和种族主义。《前卫变装》有娱乐性，又发人深省，它挑战了社会规范，重塑了人们对 LGBTQ+ 文化的看法，捕捉了一群变装表演者的亲密生活，证明了被异化的感觉从未如此熟悉。

Avant-Drag! offers an exhilarating look at ten Athenian drag performers who deconstruct gender, nationalism, belonging, identity, while facing police brutality, transphobia and racism. As entertaining as it is thought-provoking, Avant-Drag! challenges societal norms and reshapes perceptions about LGBTQ+ culture by capturing the intimate lives of a tightly-knit group of drag performers, proving that being othered never felt so familiar.

导演：菲尔·罗普洛斯
编剧：费沃斯·道瑟斯
主演：康吉拉·特罗莫迪、厄·力比多、拉拉、奥罗拉·保拉·莫拉多、帕拉卡蒂亚诺娃、谢尔盖·帕拉卡季亚诺夫、麦克莫莱特、 科索斯、拉拉·科洛皮、维罗妮克、克鲁拉·特罗莫迪、玛丽萨·特里安德菲里都（叙述者）
制片人：菲尔·罗普洛斯、斯皮罗斯·帕楚拉斯
摄影：米哈利斯·格卡佐吉亚斯
类型：纪录片、实验片
时长：92分钟
完成时间：2024年
对白语言：希腊
地区：希腊语
制片公司：FYTA电影

Director: Fil Ieropoulos
Screenwriter: Foivos Dousos
Cast: Kangela Tromokratisch, Er Libido, Lala, Aurora Paola Morado, Parakatyanova, SerGay Parakatyanov, McMorait, Cotsos, Lala Kolopi, Veronique, Cruella Tromokratisch, Marisha Triantafyllidou (Narrator)
Producer: Fil Ieropoulos, Spyros Patsouras
Cinematographer: Mihalis Gkatzogias
Genre: Documentary, Experimental film
Length: 92 min
Year: 2024
Dialogue: Greek
Region: Greece
Production Company: FYTA films

菲尔·罗普洛斯，1978年出生于雅典，在希腊北部长大。他曾在北伦敦大学学习电影、文化研究和传播学，在威斯敏斯特大学学习媒体艺术。2010年，他获得了肯特大学艺术和传播学博士学位。从2003年以来，他在白金汉郡大学担任高级讲师。他第一部剧情片《奥尔费斯2021》在塞萨洛尼基国际电影节首映，并提名希腊电影学院奖。他曾多次参加大量的国际电影节和展览。他第二部剧情片《前卫变装》经评论家的选择在鹿特丹国际电影节首映，并在世界各地许多电影节巡回展演。

Fil Ieropoulos, born in Athens in 1978, grew up in northern Greece. He studied film, cultural studies, and communication at the University of North London, and Media Arts at Westminster University. In 2010, he completed his PhD in Arts and Communication at the University of Kent. Since 2003, he’s been a Senior Lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University. His first feature, ORFEAS2021, premiered at Thessaloniki IFF and was nominated for Greek Film Academy awards. He has participated in numerous international festivals and exhibitions. His second feature Avant-Drag!, premiered at Rotterdam IFF on critic’s choice and travelled in many film festivals around the world.

在富有诗意的纪录片《前卫变装》中，我们跟随了十位生活在雅典的变装者的生活，他们创造了自己的临时世界，作为对抗敌对现实的避难所。通过近距离观察主角的生活和表达模式，我们接触到了近年来百花齐放的新景象，并通过他们发现变装艺术如何能够改变现实，并为被希腊社会边缘化的人们创造安全的空间。

《前卫变装》的主角们提出了一系列关于当代希腊背景下性别、族裔、地区和性的一系列问题。《前卫变装》采取了一个模块化的结构，展示了一系列不同性别身份、背景和生活方式的艺术家，但他们都将自己的创造力作为一种政治行为来表达。在探索艺术表达创新方式的同时他们要求一个公平和安全的存在。影片的最后，参与者们在一次晚宴上相聚，就变装艺术、酷儿呈现融入主流以及雅典变装皇后扎基·欧的谋杀案对当地酷儿场景的影响等问题展开了一系列对话。

《前卫变装》打破了酷儿/身份纪录片有时采用新闻/电影极简和遥远的“客观”方法的惯例，而是选择创造一种超现实的拼贴画，在其中，叙事和图像是与所呈现的主题一起构建的。一个社区在没有外人注视的情况下为自己代言。

同时，影片的电影万花筒从后数字现实中汲取灵感，创造出一种面向未来的多媒体混合电影语言。行为艺术场景与城市中的日常片段以及个人见证交织在一起。主人公的多彩世界交织在迷幻的图像和参考资料中，模糊了虚构与纪实、文字与隐喻、电影制作人本人与主人公之间的界限。

In the poetic documentary Avant-Drag!, we follow the lives of ten Athens-based drag performers as they create their own temporary worlds as a refuge against a hostile reality. By watching closely the lives and modes of expression of the protagonists, we get in touch with a new scene that has been blossoming in recent years and discover through them how the art of drag can transform reality and create safe spaces for people marginalised by Greek society.

The protagonists of Avant-Drag! raise a series of questions about gender, ethnicity, religion and sexuality in the contemporary Greek context. Following a modular structure, Avant-Drag! presents a series of artists with different gender identities, backgrounds and approaches to life, but all of whom express their creativity as a political act. They demand an equal and safe existence while exploring innovative ways of artistic expression. The film culminates with the participants meeting at a dinner party where a series of conversations are held concerning the art of drag, the integration of queer representation into the mainstream and the impact of Athenian drag queen Zackie Oh’s murder on the local queer scene.

Avant-Drag! breaks the conventions of queer/identity documentaries that at times take a journalistic/cinematically minimal and distant, “objective” approach, choosing to create instead a surreal collage in which narratives and images are built alongside the very subjects presented. A community speaks for itself without the mediation of an outsider’s gaze.

At the same time, the film’s cinematic kaleidoscope draws inspiration from post-digital reality to create a multimedia, hybrid cinematic language for the future. Performance art scenes meet everyday moments in the city, as well as personal testimonies. The colorful world of the protagonists intertwines in a psychedelic assemblage of images and references, blurring the boundaries between fiction and documentary, literal and metaphorical, the filmmaker himself and the protagonists.