Edhi Alice: Take begins with the perspective of Alice, a lighting director marginalized from her industry, confronting her own body. It then shifts (transitions) to the journey of the other protagonist, Edhi, who experiences new physical sensations. The film structurally establishes the relationship between these two characters while continuously foregrounding the very act of filmmaking. This transition expands beyond the personal biography of one individual, becoming a cinematic experience that encompasses relationships, the body, and the perception of space.

Edhi and Alice are friends I met through human rights activism. Working with them led me to cinematically re-encounter the concept of transition. For many, a transgender person’s transition is understood as a linear process involving hormone therapy, gender-affirming surgery, and legal gender recognition. But the transition they described was something more. In their experiences, transition was a fleeting yet recurring sensation - like layers continually forming an identity. Identity, they showed me, is not a fixed or completed state, but something fluid, endlessly constructed. I came to see this transition as a time and space of potentiality, and I sought to explore it through a cinematic sensibility. Edhi Alice is a film about the transformations that occur when two different worlds meet. In Edhi Alice: Reverse, the narrative flows from Edhi to Alice, while in Edhi Alice: Take it moves from Alice to Edhi. Through these mirrored structures, the project seeks to sense and illuminate the transition of a transgender person within the transition of a film itself. When the end credits roll, is the film truly over? I imagine that the edited-out shots, the deleted data, and the unchosen scenes continue to drift around the film long after it ends. Edhi Alice places its trust in the boundless imagination and expanded possibilities of these floating fragments. My hope is that this film is not an ending, but a beginning - for imagination, for dialogue, and for contemplation.

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