As part of Documentary Film Month
Casa Susanna questions gender identity and trans-identity in the United States in the 1950s/1960s, through testimonies and archive footage from the famous Casa Susanna, where a life far from the social and political conventions of the time was lived
Casa Susanna questions gender identity and trans-identity in the United States in the 1950s/1960s, through testimonies and archive footage from the famous Casa Susanna, where a life far from the social and political conventions of the time was lived
As part of Documentary Film Month
Casa Susanna examines gender identity and trans-identity in the United States in the 1950s/1960s, using testimonials and archive footage from the famous Casa Susanna, where a life far removed from the social and political conventions of the time was possible.
In the puritanical America of the 1960s, cross-dressing was a crime and an enormous risk. This is the secret story that Sébastien Lifshitz is about to tell: the story of a community of transvestites who met regularly in an isolated house in the Catskills, a mountainous haven in New York State, to freely live out their feminine identity.
Casa Susanna examines gender identity and trans-identity in the United States in the 1950s/1960s, using testimonials and archive footage from the famous Casa Susanna, where a life far removed from the social and political conventions of the time was possible.
In the puritanical America of the 1960s, cross-dressing was a crime and an enormous risk. This is the secret story that Sébastien Lifshitz is about to tell: the story of a community of transvestites who met regularly in an isolated house in the Catskills, a mountainous haven in New York State, to freely live out their feminine identity.
