The Way You See Me

Como tú me ves

An intimate story about the construction of identity and the consequences of defying gender norms within Mexico's conservative upper-middle-class society.

The Way You See Me traces a ten-year journey from hyperfemininity toward a defiant masculinity. What began as an experiment to challenge the idea that testosterone justifies male behaviour gradually evolved into something far more complex, confronting the filmmaker's body, voice, relationships and sense of self. But the personal keeps opening onto the political. Conservative upper-middle-class Mexican society doesn't just shape us into rigid gender roles; it recruits us as enforcers of those roles too, compelling us to monitor and regulate one another. Shot over a decade, this is one of the most comprehensive and candid explorations of what it means to transition, revealing the intertwined power dynamics between class, gender and systemic violence in Mexican society.