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Directed by Doris Wishman | 79 minutes | 18+ | Country: USA | Language: English | Year: 1972
15:15 | Saturday, October 25 | static vision HQ
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THE WHY AND HOW OF SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS
No one will ever make movies like Doris Wishman (Bad Girls Go To Hell) made movies. One of the most prolific women filmmakers in the history of American cinema, writer-director-editor Wishman created DIY collisions between surrealism and exploitation that feel like they materialized from an alternate universe.
LET ME DIE A WOMAN — Wishman's controversial quasi-documentary and one of the earliest films to explore the lives of transgender people—is a hybrid of exploitation and educational film in which a variety of transgender people speak about their experiences with gender dysphoria. The graphic scenes of gender confirmation surgery have ensured this film's lasting notoriety, but LET ME DIE A WOMAN stands as a rare historical record of the transgender experience in the 1970s and features cinematography by trans photographer Andrea Susan Malick.
CW: A fascinating but uncomfortable document. Some scenes adopt the gaze of an oppressive, objectifying, and gatekeeping medical establishment. One scene includes a urethra being prodded and entered. Other scenes are quite nice. Features a cheaply made self-mutilation effect.
SIMILAR: Paris is Burning, Glen or Glenda, Funeral Parade of Roses