The body is the subject The body is protest The body is fluid The body is traumatized The body is an artist The new body becomes content in action, subject and way to create a response. Gestures challenge rules and create conflict. It becomes the subject and material of all performative actions, being constantly placed in conflicting relationships. By opposing the normative forms of beauty and the ideal, the artist body disregards the imposed reality and moves towards a new context. The selection of films presents various hypostases of corporality, where it plays the main role going by turn in various directions. Mária Júdová depicts in Metaphors of the body, the traumatized body on the verge of pain by a dance in which the vulnerability triggered by post-traumatic stress dictates. And Ann Antidote, Eszter Szabó and Melissa Bruno lead us through various political contexts and social upheavals that deal with gender issues, this time the presence of the body going beyond the area of ​​fragility and uncertainty, becoming a body of protest. _ LOREDANA ILIE, 2022