A film from 1905 that playfully explores a reversal of physical gender characteristics and can be understood as part of the emerging discourse on hormones at the time. In a second step, the lecture draws a connection to contemporary films and (auto)theories that discuss hormones and transitioning.
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France 01 January 1905
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26 September 1905
A servant kills his miser master and buries his corpse. The murderer is haunted by the ghost of his victim.
01 January 1905
Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.
06 March 1905
A soldier attempts to rest at an inn, but his bed plays tricks on him, never giving the poor man a chance to sleep.
05 June 1905
The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track.
01 January 1905
Saharet performs the bolero for Alice Guy.
01 September 1905
An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.
30 August 1905
Spanish lost film about the 30 August 1905 solar eclipse.
27 January 1905
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18 September 1905
Early Balkan footage.
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