Flat Is Beautiful (1998)

Flat Is Beautiful is an experimental liveaction cartoon using masks animation subtitles drawings and dramatic scenes to investigate the psychic life of an androgynous elevenyearold girl Growing up in a working class neighborhood with her single mother and gay roommate Taylor confronts the loneliness of living between masculine and feminine in a culture obsessed with defining gender difference Shifting between black and white film and grainy pixelvision video Flat is Beautiful explores the internal and external worlds of sad people