GENDERATION

Streaming May 6 - May 9 throughout the United States

Includes a pre-recorded REPRESENTING TRANS HISTORIES PANEL with special guests Susan Stryker, Scott Turner Schofield, and Niko Storment

Monika Treut; 2021; Germany; 88 min.

In 1999, Monika Treut’s GENDERNAUTS was one of the first documentaries about the transgender movement in San Francisco. Twenty years later, the director seeks out the pioneers of that time. How have their lives evolved? How have aging and a shifting landscape affected them?

This documentary, which premiered at this year’s Berlinale International Film Festival, traces the lives of some of the original film’s central participants, who have been forced out of San Francisco by unrelenting economic pressures and aggressive gentrification, and who watch as hard-won rights have come under massive political attack. 

Visit your local library’s Kanopy to access GENDERNAUTS for free to create your own double feature! 

Join host Cooper Sealy (co-lead programmer) after the film with special guests Susan Stryker (GENDERATION), Scott Turner Schofield (NO ORDINARY MAN), and Niko Storment (TRANS MARCH: A LOOK BACK AT TRANSGENDER HISTORY) as they discuss documenting the histories of trans communities through film.

NO CONTENT WARNINGS

This film is co-presented by Goethe Pop-up. Check them out for more German cultural events online and in the Seattle area!

This program is sponsored by the Brown Forman family of brands: Chambord Liquer, Korbel Champagne, Tequila Herradura & Jack Daniel’s.