Synopsis

Uranian Sons is a film that invites the audience to immerse themselves in the works of famous Spanish authors such as Federico García Lorca or Luis Cernuda. As a modern reinterpretation, the figure of the goddess of love Venus (Greek: Aphrodite) is placed in the center as the protagonist: here, however, as a figure who finds her origin in the open sea into which the cut-off testicle of Uranus previously fell.

As a figure conceived without any female biological agent, the Venus of Urania has found her place as a symbol of inter-male love and sexuality in stories and narratives by a wide variety of authors since the 19th century. Among these the name of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs – a German gay rights activist and pioneer of the (then) LGBT movement –, stands out especially.

Uranian Sons breaks with common representations of the body, love and physical intimacy in art and film by highlighting different aspects of (trans)gender and (homosexual) male interaction. The audience is included in the natural process of (self-)discovery, attraction and rejection, shame and acceptance, and experiences moments of a life in its most vulnerable moments quite blatantly.