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The idea of hybrid and marginal bodies first summoned in me the character of Edward Scissorhands, half human/half machine. And this hybrid body makes him a marginal body : he doesn't fit into the suburbian lifestyle, even if he tried his best. In the end, he's condamned to live as an outcast, all alone in his dark castle, hated by most of the city.

In fact I think that most of Tim Burton’s movies are about hybrid or marginal bodies: characters out of their time or outside society because they’re, somehow, different, in appearance or behavior, like Jack from The Nightmare for Christmas who lives in Halloween Town but wants to discover new things and is interested in Chrismas, making him a weirdo in the eyes of his peers. These characters are a reflexion of the artist behind the camera : Burton himself doesn't fit Hollywood standards (he worked at the Disney studios for a while but understood that he was not happy working this way, because his aspirations were too odd for the studio and they didn't trust him). 

We started to study David Bowie’s last clip, Blackstar. As an artist but also as a person, Bowie represents the idea of hybrid and marginal body. He does not have a common look, and he embraced his difference to create his art. He also had a huge influence in terms of representations of bodies, genders and races.