FORGET EVERYTHING, ADORE ME, AND ADORE MY FLESH: THE CINEMA OF MONIKA TREUT
OCTOBER
Ever since the release of her debut feature SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN in 1985, Hamburg-based filmmaker MONIKA TREUT has devoted herself to depicting and documenting queer lives on screen, exploring the mysteries and ambiguities of gender, and transgressing repressive sexual mores and ideas. Fiercely controversial in her native Germany – where Die Zeit once proclaimed that “films like Monika Treut’s are destroying cinema” – Treut found much more acceptance for her work in the burgeoning queer film festival and independent film scenes in America, leading to several decades-long collaborations with queer icons such as trans poet Max Wolf Valerio and “post-porn modernist” Annie Sprinkle. Treut’s films stand as fearless explorations of sex and gender that trace the more taboo and less documented arcs of queer history of the late 20th century.
