| Titolo
originale: |
Gendernauts
- A Journey Through Shifting Identities |
| Genere: |
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| Sezione
nel sito: |
Only
for Woman? - Documentari |
| Provenienza,
anno, durata, ecc.: |
Germania,
1999, 35mm, 86', colore |
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Interpreti principali: Sandy
Stone, Texas Tomboy, Susan Stryker, Max Wolf Valerio, Jordy
Jones, Stafford, Tornado, Hida Viloria e Annie
Sprinkle |
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DEUTCH.
GENDERNAUTS erforscht das Phänomen von Trans-Geschlechtlichkeit.
Ort: San Francisco, Zeit: am Anfang des neuen Jahrtausends. Der Film zeigt
"Gender-Mixer" und sexuelle Cyborgs, die ihre Körper mit
Hilfe neuer Technologien und Biochemie verändern und damit die Identität
von "männlich" und "weiblich" in Frage stellen.
Auf die Frage: "Sind Sie ein Mann oder eine Frau?" antworten
die Gendernauten mit "Ja." GENDERNAUTS stellt uns eine Gruppe
faszinierender Künstler in Kalfornien vor, die zwischen den Polen
herkömmlicher Geschlechter-Identität leben. Wie die Kosmonauten
durch das Weltall und die Cybernauten durch die Netzkultur, so reisen
die Gendernauten durch die vielfältigen Welten der Sexualität.
INGLISH.
"GENDERNAUTS - A Journey Through Shifting Identities" explores
phenomena of gender fluidity at the end of the millennium in the Bay Area,
California. It is a film about cyborgs, people who alter their bodies
and minds with new technologies and chemistry, with an emphasis on biological
women who use the male sexual hormone testosterone. We get to know San
Francisco's leading gender mixers: Max Wolf Valerio, who reads from his
book, Max, A Man; Jordy Jones and his Net art; Texas Tomboy and his video
art; Stafford, who explores new business venues and, together with Jordy
Jones, organizes "Club Confidential," the world's leading gender
bender event. We meet Hida, an intersexed woman, who happily inhabits
the middle ground between male and female; and two extraordinary biological
women who support transgender people: sex goddess Annie Sprinkle and ex
centerfold model Tornado, who was Stafford's lover and is the self-proclaimed
mother of Texas Tomboy. We take excursions into the life of the spotted
hyena, a very special animal society. The female hyena has an enlarged
clitoris that looks like a penis. Her bloodstream carries a large amount
of testosterone especially when she's pregnant. Our tour guide for the
journey through shifting gender identities is Sandy Stone, also known
as the "Goddess of Cyberspace", who is Director of the ACTLab
at the University of Texas at Austin.
Fonte:
Hyena Films
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Partecipazione
ai Festival di Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, Brisbane, Copenhagen, Helsinki,
Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Montreal, Munich, New York, Paris,
Sao Paolo, San Francisco, The Hamptons, Turin, Vancouver. |
