NUIT · Thematic path
Being visible. On whose terms?
Telling your story, publishing an essay, appearing on screen: visibility takes different forms. Four works change format and context without treating lesbian, gay and trans experiences as interchangeable.
Follow the works in whichever order you prefer.
01 · Quouïr
Begin with the people concerned
LGBTQI+ people tell individual stories about subjects including coming out and same-sex parenting. Some accounts discuss family rejection and homophobia. Start with visibility among loved ones before moving towards media.
Rozenn Le Carboulec
Read our introduction · Official presentation02 · Le génie lesbien
Read a position
Alice Coffin connects journalism and activism with the place of women and lesbian visibility. A personal, engaged essay offers another form of public speech after Quouïr’s documentary accounts. Compare the questions while preserving the different contexts.
Alice Coffin
Read our introduction · Official presentation03 · Disclosure
Look at inherited images
Sam Feder examines trans representation in film and television through trans artists and creators, within American popular culture. Which characters and images shaped what we think we know?
Sam Feder
Read our introduction · Official presentation04 · Les Vies de Thérèse
Return to one life
Sébastien Lifshitz films feminist and lesbian activist Thérèse Clerc as she faces incurable illness. Her commitments and loves enter the account. The film addresses the end of life, a change in tone to consider before watching.
Sébastien Lifshitz
Read our introduction · Official presentationA question to keep
In the stories you encounter, who speaks and who is mostly described by other people?
You can keep this to yourself or discuss it. NUIT does not collect an answer here.
This path draws on the works’ official presentations. Profiles link to the sources. These introductions are not reviews based on reading, listening to or watching the works in full.