This 2012 experimental documentary by Russell Sheaffer plays like a series of highlights from a gender studies seminar, with various theorists and artists holding forth on identity politics, the social construction of gender, and other related topics. If that’s your thing, you should appreciate the thoughtful discourse; the interviewees include cultural theorist B. Ruby Rich, artist Carolee Schneemann, and filmmakers John Greyson and Monika Treut. If that isn’t your thing, this will probably feel like an hour and a half of inside baseball, yet Sheaffer heightens its visual interest by interpolating digital video and Super 8—a fitting aesthetic for the exploratory conversations.
Masculinity/Femininity
1 hour 28 min • 2012
