Little White Lies

#4: Nonconformity Now!

n Agniia Galdanova’s new documentary (out in the UK in December) we’re introduced to an otherworldly entity whose handmade, sculptural, alien-like costumes demand our full attention. Galdanova adopts a candid, fly-on-the-wall approach that peeks through the seams and stitches of these elaborately costumed apparatuses to reveal the ethereal vessel within. Gena Marvin is a 22-year-old non-binary drag artist with a soft demeanour, whose pure existence acts as a shining beacon of non-conformity

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