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Kate Bornstein Is a Queer & Pleasant Danger

2014 · 70 min

An intimate, playful and candid portrait that moves between lively stage performances and tender personal reflection, inviting thoughtful curiosity rather than easy answers.

Directed by
Sam Feder
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Kate Bornstein, Barbara Carrellas, Justin Vivian Bond
Overview
For decades, performance artist and writer Kate Bornstein has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender. And, her own identity. Trans-dyke. Reluctant polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering Scientologist. Pioneering Gender Outlaw. Kate Bornstein Is a Queer and Pleasant Danger, joins her on her latest tour capturing rollicking public performances and painful personal revelations as it bears witness to Kate as a trailblazing artist theorist activist who inhabits a space between male and female with wit, style, and astonishing candor. By turns meditative and playful, the film invites us on a thought provoking journey through Kate's world to seek answers to some of life's biggest questions.

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Directed by
Sam Feder
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Kate Bornstein, Barbara Carrellas, Justin Vivian Bond
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    • gender
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    adult
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    • true story
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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Sam Feder
    Written by
    Sam Feder
    Starring
    Kate Bornstein, Barbara Carrellas, Justin Vivian Bond, Amos Mac, Jack O'Rion Barker, Tony Lioce, Rocco Kayiatos, Sandy Holman
    Music
    Michael Hearst
    Cinematography
    Sam Feder
    Runtime
    70 min
    Country
    United States of America, Canada
    Languages
    English

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