Tristán

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Note of intent

We consider cinema as an invitation to experience another person’s vision for a few minutes. We are interested in those that incite us to question what is given, and we seek to generate that effect with our films. When we met Tristán, we felt he was one of them. At an age in which the concepts of family, expectations and career put us between what we want and what we should, that construction of identity so free and true to itself is inspiring. And we believe that it can be for others.

Synopsis

Tristán, a trans boy from a working-class neighborhood in suburban Buenos Aires, is about to finish high-school. He begins to wonder about his future, his identity, his relationships, and his changing body. In an age where every personal decision seems to need the authorization of an adult, he will not only have to deal with his own questions and fears, but also with those of his parents’. Luckily, he has found the way to take refuge from the world: his drawings. Tristán loves to create fantastic characters, like androgynous mixes of humans and animals, or colorful creatures with diabolic horns and angel’s wings. This hybrid film will mix observation with animation based on Tristán’s drawings to narrate this key moment of life: the passage to adulthood.

Visual concept

We will portray Tristan’s link with his context as a contrast. The colorful figure in a gray crowd, the moving point between the concrete buildings, the silent one on the loudest school’s recess. We will incorporate animation based on Tristán’s drawings to unfold his inner world (reflections, memories, fantasies): we believe that one’s who he has been, who he dreams to be, and then, who one becomes in this world.