retrospective
Let Me Die a Woman
Let Me Die a Woman | Doris Wishman | US 1977 | 79 Min
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So,25.09.▸15:30
(S)exploitation-Pionierin Doris Wishman wendet sich in ihrer einzigen Shockumentary dem Thema Transsexualität zu. Interviews mit Betroffenen und Aktivist:innen sowie ein Vortrag von Dr. Leo Wollman, einer damaligen Autorität auf dem Gebiet, werden im Gestus des sensationalistischen Aufklärungsfilms mit Softsex-Szenen, (Groß-)Aufnahmen von Genitalien und – was dem Film seinen Ruf eingebracht hat – Filmmaterial einer geschlechtsangleichenden Operation aufgepeppt. Let Me Die a Woman ist echt und verlogen, aufklärerisch und reaktionär, verwerflich und verwegen und jedenfalls: unvergesslich.
Doris Wishman
(* 1912, † 2002) was a self-taught writer, director, and independent producer. Referred to by many as the “female Ed Wood,” she was one of very few women grindhouse-circle filmmakers during the 1960s and ’70s. Films like Nude on the Moon (1961, from her nudist period), Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965, sexploitation), her semi-documentary Let Me Die a Woman (1977), or her horror slasher A Night to Dismember (1983) brought her a cult following during the 1990s. This allowed her to make another three movies shortly before her death, including the neo-sexploitation Satan Was a Lady, which is not to be confused with Wishman’s 1975 hardcore pornographic film of the same title.
(* 1912, † 2002) was a self-taught writer, director, and independent producer. Referred to by many as the “female Ed Wood,” she was one of very few women grindhouse-circle filmmakers during the 1960s and ’70s. Films like Nude on the Moon (1961, from her nudist period), Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965, sexploitation), her semi-documentary Let Me Die a Woman (1977), or her horror slasher A Night to Dismember (1983) brought her a cult following during the 1990s. This allowed her to make another three movies shortly before her death, including the neo-sexploitation Satan Was a Lady, which is not to be confused with Wishman’s 1975 hardcore pornographic film of the same title.
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Metro
So,25.09.▸15:30
