For more than 15 years, sexual provocateur and film festival fixture Monika Treut has been cheerfully championing a laissez-faire approach to the pleasures of the flesh in her documentaries and features, rattling the cages of moralists and militants alike, by eschewing politically correct strategies in favor of a more benevolent approach to gender expression. She’s at it again in Gendernauts, a surprisingly accessible look at “gender elimination phenomena”, that focuses on a handful of travelers journeying from female to male.
GENDERNAUTS
Screening Schedule
|
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Monika Treut
- Script: Monika Treut
- Cinematography: Elfi Mikesch
- Editing: Eric Schefter
- Music: Georg Kajanus
- Production: Hyena Films
- Producers: Monika Treut
- Format: 35mm
- Color: Colour
- Production Country: Germany-USA
- Production Year: 1999
- Duration: 86'
Monika Treut
Known for films about sexual identity, fearless director Treut's new documentary is a departure from her previous six films. "Warrior of Light" focuses on artist activist Yvonne Bezerra and her work with Rio de Janeiro's street children. The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival's retrospective of Treut also will include "Gendernauts" (1999, about gender fluidity in the Bay Area), "Female Misbehavior" (1992, four portraits of people, from "post-feminist" Camille Paglia to a transsexual Native American) and "Didn't Do It for Love" (1997, a look at a Norwegian-born woman, who was kicked out of Mexico in 1966, became a New York dominatrix in the 80s and counseled sex offenders still later). The "New York Times" called the latter "Adventurous, Erotic, Disturbing". The emblem fits much of Treut's work.
