Iphis/Ianthe

Paul Schick

United States of America / 2014 / Fiction, Experimental / 16’31”I1504329

Iphis/Ianthe
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SYNOPSIS

After Ovid. In Crete, a father threatens his wife Telethusa to kill all but sons. She bears him a daughter, Iphis, and conceals the child's gender from him. Believing Iphis to be a boy, beautiful Ianthe falls in love with her. The wedding day nears: the goddess Isis effects a gender change in Iphis.

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