City and diversity in the film "The Congress"

Abstract

This interdisciplinary publication presents a reflection of gender as a category of analysis, and space, while materialization field of social representations, desires and body condition. In contrast to regular planning and orderly city of the nineteenth century, as the effect of social control measures, we exemplify the possibility of a place where people would express their singularities publicly, going beyond gender and breaking with the heteronormativity. With the support of queer theory, we present the example of free association between gender and space through the film "The Congress", where the flow of identity freedoms, desires and body hybridization are reflected in the deterritorialization of the urban space, defining the simulacrum of a dynamic and flexible place to be shared.

Key-words

City. Gender. Queer. Fiction.