Gendernauts

Got a review copy of the 1999 film Gendernauts by German filmmaker Monika Truet which just became available on DVD through First Run Features. Its kind of like an ethnography of the San Francisco FTM trans scene as it was in the late nineties when the world revolved around Stafford and Jordy Jones and performances by Elvis Herselvis. Overall an interesting film, it just suffers from being dated and focusing so much on a scene and clique that was hot then but has since been replaced by a whole different group of genderqueers and drag kings.

Still, definitely worth viewing for a sense of history and to see how some of the issues haven't changed, even if the names and faces have.