Pirate Boys
Pol Merchan
Kathy Acker’s writing, and a seminal portrait of her taken by intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, provide a lens through which to explore trans subjectivity and the queering of cinema. Pol Merchan’s hybrid documentary fluidly moves from the documentation of the punk era to a more performative exploration of gender.
Pol Merchan
Pol Merchan (born 1980 in Leida, Spain) received a degree in fine arts from the University of Barcelona in 2007 and an MA in art in context from the Berlin University of the Arts in 2014. His work has been shown at Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid, Barcelona Contemporary Culture Centre, Anthology Film Archives, New York, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival, the International Short Film Festivals of Oberhausen, Clermont-Ferrand, and Sao Paulo, and many others.
Films by Pol Merchan
Pirates 2018 | Familiar Memories 2016
