Lonely at the Top

"We're going to exaggerate shamelessly." This sentence is spoken over black film by Lucy McEvil, transvestite, singer and passionate resident of Vienna, at the beginning of Wolfgang Muhr's short portrait. Hyperbole is a wholly suitable leitmotif for a film in which an artist is shown portraying characters of the opposite sex, as the representation's exaggeration, ironic refraction and displacement is what differentiates the act of dressing in drag from mere imitation of a certain sex. The viewer is given an opportunity to fully comprehend the ironic refraction of McEvil's act in film. (Andrea B. Braidt)