Sweet illustration from South Africa’s Am I Collective.

In a recent interview with indieWire, director Todd Haynes states that the notion of a fixed personal identity is a lie; that “it is something that we are always working on and abridging and using outside influences to keep changing.” No where is this theory better exemplified than in his new movie, I’m Not There, in which his subject, Bob Dylan is played by six different actors including Cate Blanchett and 13-year-old African-American actor, Marcus Carl Franklin. Ultimately, the movie becomes as much a study of identity for the filmmaker …