PYUUPIRU 2001-2008
1h 30min | Documentary | Dir. Daishi Matsunaga
PYUUPIRU is a Tokyo-born and based transgender artist who started dressmaking in her teens and later experimented with plastic costumes, eventually developing her own style that evolved into art. She is self-taught without any formal training.
This documentary film 'PYUUPIRU 2001-2008' was filmed by an old friend of hers, Daishi Matsunaga, who followed her for 8 years. The film uncovers Pyuupiru's true self who was going through a gender identity disorder, broken heart, and castration operation, which concludes with her performance at Yokohama Triennale in 2005 as a compilation of her life experience. Enormous amount of footage also reveals the relationships with her family, friends and her boyfriend who have always watched her with a warm look, although they had mixed feeling for the reality.
