Bettina Rheims
Gender Studies

  • France
  • en
  • en
  • 7'
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Bettina Rheims | Gender Studies

Synopsis

For her Gender Studies series, Bettina photographed the “third sex”, these men and women who live between the masculine and the feminine, refusing to choose. Through the subtle sound work of Frédéric Sanchez, this film gives them a voice as the camera travels over their body, close up, far out, scrambling all the codes.

What you will find in this film

A graceful turmoil between genders • A beauty neither masculine nor feminine • Gender-neutral speech • Their privacy • Freedom • A rostrum-camera film

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Further exploration

Selected bibliography

• Patrick Remy (ed.), Bettina Rheims, Taschen, 2017 (multilingual). Publisher · Libraries

• Bettina Rheims, Gender Studies, Steidl Verlag, 2014. Libraries

• Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly, Chambre close, Schirmer Mosel, 2007. Libraries

• Bettina Rheims, Female Trouble, Schirmer Mosel, 2002. Libraries

• Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly, I.N.R.I., The Monacelli Press, 1999.

• Bettina Rheims, Modern Lovers, Edition Braus, 1998. Libraries