An interview with Phia Menard, a transgeder circus artist with a fascination for human transformation and ‘juggling the unjuggleable’. Cacti, dancing plastic bags and ice, a substance that can gradually alter its state and which serves as a metaphor for Phia’s own sex change. French with subtitles.
What is circus? This was the introductory film for Circus Post – a series of 15 short films on contemporary circus, co- produced with Crying Out Loud, for the BBC Arts Council online arts portal The Space. There’s a portrait of Phia Menard who juggles the unjuggleable, a mini documentary on a Moroccan circus family, and short film […]