Sunday, October 12, 1:30 PM
Cinema 21

A provocative documentary by German filmmaker Gabriel Baur about drag kings begins in New York at the legendary Drag King Night at Club Casanova. Here Baur interviews and documents the lives of woman who are art – or full time drag kings. The drag kings of New York meet in clubs and change lustfully into their male alter egos, exploring male eroticism. In London and Zurich, we see women experiment with hormones to accelerate their masculinity. Everybody knows about drag queens but it seems that drag kings reject the traditional male-female polarity even more, which raises many questions how gender works in our society. In Venus Boyz masculinity and transformance as performance, travels through a borderland where individual’s gender should never been taken for granted and demonstrates that gender is only what you make it.

Dir. Gabriel Baur
2001 Switzerland, Germany & USA 102 min 35mm English