Porpora is a journey on the road in the human adventure of Porpora Marcasciano, a trans who has lived as a protagonist in the feminist, communist and trans movements from the Seventies to today. Neither man nor woman, her identity is in perennial transition.
On a trip from Bologna south, towards her hometown, she retraces her experience of battles that continue to be waged today alongside Vittorio, a younger traveling companion.
From the explosion of ’77, to the crazy nights in Rome, to her political commitment, Porpora recounts to a new generation how individuality produces social change only by uniting and being realized in multiplicity.
At sixty, Porpora bears the weight of her lightness: without hiding some weariness, her playful interpretation of the world accompanies her desire to recount and unravel the thread of the trans story with her own original and provocative testimony.
If the current movement appears to threaten some and to be a residual form to its protagonists, and if the past is interpreted as mythological and inert, what is to be the synthesis of a transgender woman and her travel companion at the end of this search?
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
Porpora Marcasciano is currently one of the most influential and dynamic activists for the rights of the trans community around the world, she is a woman of the people for the people.
Porpora is a film that recounts the difficulties of the entire trans community through its protagonist. It’s a film that revolves around the protagonist that allows viewers to recognize the substantial difference between stardom and leadership on their own. With this film I set out to put the audience in front of a choice: to close their eyes and hope someone will take action for them or to open them and recognize the necessity of inner change we must all work on.
Those who come to the cinema will not simply see a documentary about the life of Porpora Marcasciano. In this film, Porpora is subject, narrator, guide and witness all at the same time. Just like Porpora in due time, Vittorio (the co-star of the film) will be guided and made participant in a truth. In which of the two figures will the viewers, at the end of the film, identify themselves when thinking about our approach to the theme of transgender?
