Performance and protest collide in this film that documents the final show of the
Cabaret “Travesía Travesti” (Travesti Odyssey), which coincides with the social outburst
in Chile on October 18th, 2019. Amid the uprising, Anastasia struggles to reunite
the former members of a fractured cast, but Maraca, her best friend, does not want
to continue with the play. Amnesia, a filmmaker and the last remaining artist in the
company, embarks on a cinematic journey through footage and interviews of a group
of friends who, behind the glitter, feathers, and beads, reveal their historical disputes
and the complexities of friendship, inheritance, and collectivity in this patriarchal
system.The narration of the film moves almost seamlessly between personal, documentary,
and fictional cinema, integrating the theatricality of drag shows and the physicality
of postdramatic live performances. Travesty Odyssey is a piece that marks a unique
aesthetic movement of gender, political, and culturally dissident groups in Chile.
Anto Astudillo. “TRANSlations 2023 Program Guide.” 2023. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a86d494b1ffb6251b62962f/t/6454a8e0dde55e0c33e5039a/1683269871243/TRANSlations+2023+Program+Guide+copy.pdf.
