US PREMIERE

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

1999

Gendernauts

Sunday

May 14, 2000

@

7:45 pm

16th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

With in person.
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Director
Monika Treut
Year
1999
Run Time
86
min
Country
Germany
Language
English
PROGRAM Time
93
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture.
This film is presented in English with English subtitles.
From the director of The Virgin Machine comes this captivating exploration of gender malleability. Tour guide and "goddess of cyberspace" Sandy Stone reveals a treasure trove of San Francisco's leading gender-benders: Max Wolf Valerio, a female-to- male transsexual; Texas Tomboy, who relates the shifting of sub-San Francisco tectonic plates to internal shifts of identity; and legendary Susan Stryker, a tranny historian and male-to-female transsexual. Sex-goddess Annie Sprinkle and a fascinating rumination on the sexually ambiguous female spotted hyena contribute to this unforgettable documentary.
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This short film program includes the following films:

Belly, Femur. Femur, Belly.

CONTENT WARNING:
Belly, Femur. Femur, Belly. by Laura Cowell (Canada, 1997, 7 min.), the chance meeting between sophisticated Belly and heart-broken Femur.
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