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Next of Kin

You’d never think a scene showing a woman building a wall out of sugar cubes could make for compelling cinema, but in the hands of Kiwi director Tony Williams, it’s just that. His NEXT OF KIN (1982, Shudder), co-written with Michael Heath, is that oddity of oddities, an Australian giallo. The tale of a young woman (Jacki Kerrin) who inherits her estranged mother’s palatial senior living facility in the wilds of Victoria builds a dreamlike atmosphere on a par with the work of Bava, Argento and Fulci (Quentin Tarantino has called it Australia’s answer to THE SHINING, but I like it better). It’s got all the right ingredients — a strong color scheme, past traumas and secrets, mysterious deaths, convincing red herrings, a driving electronic score (by Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream) and sex. It even has strange narrative lacunae that just add to the dreamlike atmosphere (the director said some scenes were cut before release and lost forever). There are moments of visual poetry as Kerrin goes through her mother’s possessions, punctuated by strange occurrences — power that goes out for no seeming reason, candles left burning and water taps left open where nobody was supposed to be, and sudden appearances of the home’s residents. Yet it’s also distinctly Australian in the depiction of a landscape that consistently makes the humans inhabiting it seem somehow inadequate. There’s also an Atlman-esque scene with one of the residents going on and on about his military service while Kerrin and the home’s manager (the wonderful Gerda Nicolson) try to get a new patient in out of the torrential downpour. By the time it’s over, that sugar-cube wall is far from the strangest thing you’ve witnessed. The film beat out THE EVIL DEAD for best picture and director at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, which won’t seem that surprising once you see it.

#australian films #ozsploitation #giallo

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2022 Horror Challenge: [26/?]

↳ “To my daughter, Linda Mary Stevens, I leave my entire inheritance; all goods, chattels, worldly possessions that comprise of the estate, Montclare.” Next of Kin (1982) dir. Tony Williams

Plot: In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.

Starring: Jackie Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott & Gerda Nicolson

25th watch of the challenge this year! Finally made it to this number, it officially being the first week of October, and after me not watching anything the first day, that has me wanting already to play catch-up. I’m determined to watch at least one horror movie per day from now ‘til Halloween this year so we’ll see how well that goes. Anyway, about the movie, I checked out this underrated gem, not knowing much about it besides the fact that apparently Tarantino thinks it’s awesome, dubbing it an Australian version of The Shining kinda thing. Which actually is kinda fair since even though the plot’s different, this movie is totally about the slow burn and the atmosphere. There’s definitely a lot of memorable shots in here and you do kinda have a long wait before you could say something genuinely scary happens. But it is definitely eerie throughout at parts. I was game for it. Jackie Kerin did a good job as the lead. I think it’s worth checking out if you’re in for a slow burn kinda mood. That said, the ending is very fast pace and exciting so there’s that. Overall, I liked it. I get why it’s considered a cult favorite.

#next of kin #horrorchallenge2022

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Films watched in 2021.

237: Next of Kin (Tony Williams, 1982)

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

“I am returning to the past so much now.”

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Lili Elbe (born December 28, 1882 in Vejle , Denmark as Einar Mogens Andreas Wegener [1] ; † September 12, 1931 in Dresden , Germany ) was a Danish painter . She was probably one of the first intersex people to undergo gender reassignment surgery in 1930/31 . Lili Elbe had operations first in Berlin and then three more times in Dresden.

The writer Niels Hoyer writes in his book A Man Changes His Sex: A Life Confession that Lili Elbe was born with both male and female organs.

Gerda Wegener

: Lili Elbe, ca.1928

Lili Elbe and Gerda Gottlieb met as students at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and married in 1904. Elbe specialized in landscape and architectural painting, while Gottlieb opted for illustration and fashion graphics. In order to expand their sphere of activity, they moved to Paris in 1912 , where Gerda could also live out her lesbian orientation and Lili could live out her female identity more freely.

Around 1913 it became known that the model for Gerda's fashionable figurines was a phenotypic man who called himself Lili Elbe. Only the closest friends knew that Lili Elbe was identical to Einar Wegener; Gerda Wegener introduced Lili to strangers as her husband's sister. In 1930 Lili Elbe decided to finally make the physical adjustment to the perceived gender . In February 1930 she followed Kurt Warnekros' instructions and went to Berlin. The Institute of Sexology of Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin led the gender reassignment surgeryby. The first operation took place in a practice in Berlin. Then Elbe went to the Dresden women's clinic. On May 26, 1930, Kurt Warnekros performed a second operation.

As a result of the sex reassignment operations, the marriage was annulled by the Danish king; Elbe received papers in its new name.

A few months after the fourth operation in 1931, complications arose, probably due to transplant rejection , from which Lili Elbe died. [4] [5] She was buried on the Dresden Trinity Cemetery in Dresden-Johannstadt in the IIC field.

New tombstone 2016. Lili Elbe's grave, which was leveled in the 1960s, was restored in 2016. The new tombstone was funded by Focus Features , the production company for The Danish Girl .

Lili Elbe's life story Fra mand til kvinde (From man to woman) first appeared in Danish in 1931, was translated into German, published in Dresden in 1932 and then in London in 1933 in English in a translation from the German version . In 1953 a second unabridged edition was published in New York; the most recent edition in English is from 2004. The book by Niels Hoyer (d. i. Ernst Harthern ) was published in German in 1954 by the Tauchnitz-Verlag under the title "Change - a life confession"

For Jan Morris , the book she discovered in a bookstore in Ludlow was "the first confirmation that there were other people in the world who were in exactly the same position as me."

In 2000 David Ebershoff wrote a novel about Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener (in the book as American painter Greta Waud) with the title The Danish Girl (original title The Danish Girl ). It has been translated into a dozen languages and has been an international bestseller.

The film adaptation of the same name by Tom Hooper premiered on September 5, 2015 at the Venice International Film Festival . Eddie Redmayne plays Lili and Alicia Vikander plays Gerda. At the 2016 Academy Awards , Redmayne was nominated for Best Actor , and Vikander was named Best Supporting Actress.

In November 2013 the Lili Elbe Archive was founded in Berlin as an "independent place for the transmission of one's own history of non-normative gender"; worn by an association of the same name.

Fra mand til kvinde , 1931

A person changes his gender: a life confession, edited from papers left behind by Niels Hoyer . Translated from the Danish original Fra Mand til Kvinde by Ernst Narthern-Jacobson. DNB entry Reissner, Dresden 1932

Man into woman: the first sex change, a portrait of Lili Elbe: the true and remarkable transformation of the painter Einar Wegener / edited by Niels Hoyer , translated from the German by HJ Stenning. 1933

Man into woman: An authentic record of a change of sex; The true story of the Danish painter Einar Wegener (Andreas Sparre) / [Lili Elbe] , edited by Niels Hoyer, from the German version A man changes his gender into English translated by HJ Stenning. Popular Library, New York 1953 (2nd unabridged edition)

Change - a life confession , edited by Niels Hoyer, Tauchnitz Stuttgart 1954.

Man into woman: the first sex change, a portrait of Lili Elbe: the true and remarkable transformation of the painter Einar Wegener . Blue Boat Books, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-9547072-0-0 .

David Ebershoff (2000): The Danish Girl , Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2000, German: The Danish Girl , Goldmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-442-30843-9 .

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Susanne Kailitz (2012): The Experiment. In 1930 the Dresden gynecologist Kurt Warnekros carried out one of the world's first sex reassignments. Now this is the material for a feature film - with Nicole Kidman . In: Die Zeit , January 12, 2012.

Sabine Meyer (2010): With the doll's pram into normative femininity. Lili Elbe and the journalistic staging of transsexuality in Denmark . In: Northern Europe Forum . 20 (2010: 1-2), pp. 33-61.

Rainer Herrn (2005): Patterns of the sex. Transvestism and Transsexuality in Early Sexology . Psychosozial Verlag, Gießen (Lahn) 2005, ISBN 3-89806-463-8 , page 204 ff.

Harald Neckelmann : The story of Lili Elbe. A person changes his gender. Bebra Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89809-163-3

- Collection of images, videos and audio files

Biography of Lili Elbe at the Federal Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation

Gerda Wegener - a photo album ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (in English)

Article about Gerda Wegener and Lili Elbe in the New York Times (in English)

Einar Wegener on artnet

Review of the English version of Lili Elbe's autobiography , oiiaustralia.com , April 17, 2009 (in English)

Lili Elbe (Einar Wegener) 1882–1931 , danmarkshistorien.dk (in Danish)

#trans history #transgender woman #transgender #trans pride #transisbeautiful #transwoman #postop transwomen

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