Gender as Performance

Gender as Performance

A series of films that show the range and fluidity of gender in life. From drag queens and kings, to performance artists and dancers, these stories show that gender can take many forms.

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Gender as Performance
  • Venus Boyz

    Directed by Gabriel Baur • Documentary • With Mo B. Dick, Diane Torr, DRED, Bridge Markland • 2002 • 104 minutes

    Club Casanova, home of the legendary Drag King Night in New York City, is the point of departure for an iconic gender odyssey, where women become men – some for a night, others for a ...

  • Rebels on Pointe

    Directed by Bobbi Jo Hart • Documentary • 2016 • 90 minutes

    Exploring universal themes of identity, dreams and family, REBELS ON POINTE is the first-ever documentary film celebrating the world famous Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. The notorious all-male, drag ballet company was founded o...

  • Lemebel

    Directed by Joanna Reposi • Documentary • 2020 • 96 minutes

    Chilean performance artist, writer, anti-fascist, cross-dresser, and queer activist Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015) was a larger-than-life icon of his country’s gay liberation movement. In both his work and his life, he blended humor with spe...

  • 50 Years of Fabulous

    Directed by Jethro Patalinghug • Documentary • 2019 • 82 minutes

    50 Years of Fabulous recounts the rich history of the Imperial Council, the oldest LGBT charity organization in the world. Founded in San Francisco by renowned activist, drag queen and performer Jose Sarria (the first openly gay ma...

  • Searching Eva

    Directed by Pia Hellenthal • Documentary • With Eva Collé • 2019 • 84 minutes

    Eva, 25, drifter, Berliner, pet-owner, poet, lesbian, sex worker, virgo, housewife, addict, feminist, model, declared privacy an outdated concept at the age of 14. This is the tale of a young woman growing up in the ag...

  • Eye on the Guy

    Directed by Philip Lewis & Jean-Francois Monette • Documentary • 2006 • 49 minutes

    Alan B. Stone: astute businessman, quiet suburbanite, and master of the homoerotic pin-up. EYE ON THE GUY explores the little-known world of Montreal’s physique photography scene, a distinct gay subculture that em...

  • Madam Phung's Last Journey

    Directed by Nguyễn Thị Thấm • Documentary • 2014 • 87 minutes

    A former monk who left monastic life because 'I saw beautiful fags praying, and felt like running away,' Madam Phung is a canny businesswoman who got her start as a singer, and saved her money in the form of gold bars she would bury i...