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Man for a Day

Performance artist and drag king Diane Torr leads a workshop in which women develop male characters.

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  • "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?"
  • ""Performance artist and gender activist Diane Torr has appeared on stages around the world as a drag king, performing male characters inspired by philospher Judith Butler's theories of gender 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"--Container."
  • "Die legendäre Diane Torr kann aus Frauen Männern machen. Oder ihnen zumindest für einen Workshop lang das Gefühl geben, einer zu sein. In handfesten Experimenten geht man dort der Frage nach, ob es wirklich der Körper ist, der Männer und Frauen unterscheidet - oder nicht doch eher das Auftreten und die eingeübten Rollen. Katharina Peters (AM SEIDENEN FADEN) hat einige mutige Teilnehmerinnen mit der Kamera begleitet und lässt sich u.a. von einer ehemaligen Miss Spreewald, einer Politikberaterin, einer Männermodendesignerin und einer alleinerziehenden Migrantin zeigen, wie aufregend es sein kann, einmal breitbeinig durch die Straßen Berlins zu laufen. Außerdem ist MAN FOR A DAY, der Eröffnungsfilm der Perspektive Deutsches Kino (Berlinale 2012) ein faszinierendes Porträt der Gender-Pionierin Diane Torr geworden."
  • ""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?"--manforaday-film.com."
  • "Performance artist and drag king Diane Torr leads a workshop in which women develop male characters."@en
  • "Performance artist and drag king Diane Torr leads a workshop in which women develop male characters."

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  • "Motion pictures"
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  • "Documentary films"
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  • "German language films"
  • "DVD-Video"
  • "Filmed performances"
  • "Vidéo"

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