Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities vs On the Impossibility of an Homage
On the Impossibility of an Homage has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.5/10 for Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities). On the Impossibility of an Homage is the shorter watch at 19m compared with 1h 27m. Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities is the older of the two (1999 against 2024). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities
On the Impossibility of an Homage| Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities | On the Impossibility of an Homage | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1999 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 27m | 19m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | Germany |
| Director | Monika Treut | Xandra Popescu |
| Main cast | Susan Stryker, Annie Sprinkle, Sandy Stone, Max Wolf Valerio, Texas Tomboy | Gabriela Durleci, Cristian Susu, Mirela Simniceanu, Ion Tugearu |
Synopsis
Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities
Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The characters in this film have a lot to complain about, and they do. They are people whose physical appearance (female) does not match their inner sexual identity (male). The subject is pinpointed in the film independant of sexual…
On the Impossibility of an Homage
Given a portrait, who is responsible for the image we see, the painter or the subject? Ion used to be a a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania. When we first discussed the possibility of a portrait, Ion was initially thrilled. He’d been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But during the filmmaking process Ion finds it hard to let go.
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