In 1999, Monika Treut’s GENDERNAUTS was one of the first documentaries about the transgender
movement in San Francisco. Twenty years later, the director seeks out the pioneers
of that time. How have their lives evolved? How have aging and a shifting landscape
affected them?
This documentary, which premiered at this year’s Berlinale International Film Festival,
traces the lives of some of the original film’s central participants, who have been
forced out of San Francisco by unrelenting economic pressures and aggressive gentrification,
and who watch as hard-won rights have come under massive political attack.
Visit your local library’s Kanopy to access GENDERNAUTS for free to create your own
double feature!
Cooper Sealy & Mocha James Herrup. “2021 Translations Program.” 2021. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a86d494b1ffb6251b62962f/t/6092c9cc84c4e11ef349a263/1620232676694/2021Translations-program.pdf.
