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Gendernauts - Eine Reise durch die Geschlechter
- Runtime:
- 90 min.
- Year of Production:
- 1999
- Country:
- Deutschland
- Director:
- Cast:
- Sandy Stone
Susan Stryker
Max Wolf Valerio
Texas Tomboy - Production Company:
- Hyena Films (Hamburg) in Co-Produktion mit: Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) (Köln), Arte Deutschland TV GmbH (Baden-Baden)
- Teddy Awards:
- Teddy Jury Award
Special Teddy Award
GENDERNAUTS explores transgenderism. San Francisco at the beginning of the new millennium: gender benders and sexual cyborgs make use of new technologies to change their bodies. Identification as male or female is brought into question.
BIOGRAFIE Monika Treut
Born in Mönchengladbach, Germany in 1954, she completed a PhD in literature at Marburg in 1984. She began working with video in 1976 and founded Hyena Films with Elfi Mikesch in 1984. Her feature and documentary films have shaped Queer Cinema for over 35 years. The love story Seduction: The Cruel Woman, the sex melodrama Virgin Machine and the comedy My Father is Coming were followed by a series of documentaries including the multi-award-winning trans-futuristic Gendernauts. Her films have featured at the Berlinale 13 times already; in 2017, she received the TEDDY AWARD for her lifetime achievement. She also teaches at universities in California and New York and, since 2018, has been Deputy Professor of Media at the University of Hildesheim.
FILMOGRAFIE Monika Treut (selection)
2021 Genderation
2016 Zona Norte
2014 Von Mädchen und Pferden
2012 Das Rohe und das Gekochte
2009 Ghosted (ai-mei)
2009 Ghosted
2005 Den Tigerfrauen wachsen Flügel
2001 Kriegerin des Lichts
1999 Gendernauts - Eine Reise durch die Geschlechter
1998 Didn't Do It For Love
1992 Female Misbehavior
1992 Max
1992 Dr. Paglia
1991 My Father Is Coming
1989 Annie
1988 Die Jungfrauenmaschine
1985 Verführung: Die grausame Frau
Sandy Stone in an excerpt from "GENDERNAUTS
Trailer "MONIKA TREUT"
SPECIAL TEDDY AWARD goes to Monika Treut
Trailer