Performance artist and gender activist Diane Torr has appeared on stages around the world as a drag king, performing male characters and raising issues of gender and performativity. Now she holds workshops for other women in which they develop their own male characters and live as men for a day in an attempt to better understand the dynamics of gender in contemporary society.

This film brings us inside Torr's workshop in Berlin. The artist guides a group of open-minded women from diverse backgrounds - an Angolan single mother, an Israeli lesbian, a young German beauty queen, among others - through the theoretical underpinnings of her work, and helps them develop male characters of their own.

Icarus Films Collection

Sex role, Gender identity, Men, Man-woman relationships, Role playing, Male impersonators

KnoÌ, Inga ˆlke (Cinematographer), Anders, Friederike (Editor), Teuchert, Jana (Editor), Althoff, Burkhard (Editor), Schade, Jan Tilman (Composer), Gut, Gudrun (Composer), Freyer, Ben (Composer), Peters, Katarina (Producer), Peters, Katarina (Director), Katarina Peters Filmproduktion (Producer), Media Co-op (Firm) (Collaborator)

00:59:15 (HH:MM:SS)

English

adult/continuing education, higher education

Name	Icarus Films
Role	distributor
Telephone	1-718-488-8900
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Email	[email protected]

2012-01-01

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