"Eerily inventive and stylish"

22nd London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

"A revolution in coming-out stories"

MIX 22 New York Queer Experimental Film Festival

SYNOPSIS

While visiting a freak show, a doll finds herself caught up in a series of events that soon reveal to her the secrets of her true nature.

Sexual twists and turns take a simple 'coming-out' story into the magical fairy tale realm of stop-frame animation.

CREDITS

Direction/ Screenplay / Animation/ Camera / Set design / Sound Design: Nataly Lebouleux
Editing: Nataly Lebouleux, Anthony Campbell, Dettie Gould
Produced by: Improbable Dolls
United Kingdom, 2007
18 mins 40 secs
B&W

SCREENINGS

2008

22nd London Gay and Lesbian film festival. April 2008
20th Newfest, New York city. June 2008
2008 Anchorage PrideFest Film festival. June 2008
Gaze 2008, Dublin August 2008
LesGaiCineVox 08, Rosario and Santa Fe, Argentina. October 2008
Metzipatra, 9th Gay and Lesbian Film festival, Brno and Prague, October 2008
16th MixBrasilFilm and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity, Sao Paulo, November 2008
3rd FIAE - International Film Festival of Erotic Animation- Rio De Janeiro, Brasilia, Sao Paulo, November -December 2008

2009

MIX 22 New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, November 2009

TV BROADCASTS - INTERNET TV

ADD-TV, New York City, January/ May 2009

About ADD-TV
"a queer-themed public access show. The format is a half-hour program featuring a series of different short films by young independent filmmakers. It airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network to much local acclaim once a month."Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
"mix of avant-garde, sexy, funny and bitingly original queer music videos and shorts." Next Magazine Feb 07

CESKA TELEVIZE, Czech Republic, October 2009
Illuminate has been selected as part of "Best Shorts of Mezipatra LGBT Film festival 2008" . As a result, it will be available on-line to Czech viewers of the Public TV Channel.
Viewers will be asked to vote for their favourite short

GALLERY SHOWCASES

Georges House Gallery, Folkestone England.

as part of the Art Project Puppets&Dolls by Estelle Rosenfeld.