Diane Torr

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Venus Boyz 2002 (6.3)

This intimate look into the real world of drag kings -- women exploring their masculinity -- crosses continents, traveling through drag king nightclubs from New York to London.
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Man for a Day 2012 (5.7)

Gender activist Diane Torr’s worldwide appearances and workshops are now legendary. For the past thirty years, the main focus of this performance artist’s work has been an exploration of the theoretical, artistic as well as the practical aspects of gender identity. Katarina Peters’ documentary observes a Diane Torr workshop in Berlin in which a group of open-minded women come together to discover the secrets of masculinity. What makes a man a man and a woman a woman? Precisely when and where is gender identity formatted? How much is nature and how much nurture? Each of Torr’s workshops represents an open-ended laboratory experiment in social behaviour in which the question is posed: is it possible to deliberately play out different roles and create a space in which to transgress both masculine and feminine characteristics?
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Mayhem 1987 (5)

In 1983, filmmaker and poet Abigail Child cut up old footage from Between Times, a documentary profile of high school girls in Minneapolis which she had produced for WNET/PBS back in 1975. That footage would then be integrated into work of a drastically different kind: The film was called Mutiny which, by its very name, signaled her abandonment of the humanist documentary tradition to which Between Times belonged, to become, in her words, “a prismatic rhythmic pinwheel” born of the artistic and political necessity to radically rethink form. Mutiny, in turn, stood as one of the most densely woven in a series of bold experiments that came to be known as Is This What You Were Born For?
Diane Torres

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Tuesday 2024

A young couple, Ryan and Michelle, move in together in Spring of 2020. Follows a year of their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Diane Torr

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The Undergrad 2003 (1)

The Undergrad is a sexy, gender transgressive parody of the 1967 classic “The Graduate.” This playful celebration of gender and sexual liberation highlights the intersections of deviance, desire, love, and social acceptance. The film follows Ben, who is lost at the brink of adulthood and mystified by his growing desires as he finds himself creating a new life of secrecy, submission, confusion, and budding self-confidence.