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== Biografia ==
Treut’s transgressive brand of filmmaking is a much needed intervention into the arena of sexual politics. Her misbehaving women are a vital form of resistance. Julia Knight, Sight and Sound. Monika Treut wasè bornnata ina Moenchengladbach, Germany,il on6 April 6,aprile 1954. SheHa studiedstudiato literatureletteratura ande politicspolitica atalla Philipps-University, di Marburg. InA themetà mid-seventiesdegli sheanni settanta inizia a beganlavorare workingcon withil video. HerLa PhDsua thesistesi di dottorato "The Cruel Woman: Female Images in the Writing of Marquis de Sade and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch" wasè publishedstata pubblicata in GermanyGermania, SwitzerlandSvizzera ande Austria innel 1984. InA themetà mid-eightiesdegli Treutanni startedOttanta toha write,iniziato directa andscrivere, producedirigere award-winninge independentprodurre featureslungometraggi ande documentaries,documentari whichindipendenti screenedche atsono numerousstati filmproiettati festivalsin throughoutnumerosi thefestival worldcinematografici anddi enjoytutto internationalil distributionmondo. RetrospectivesLe haveretrospettive beensi heldsono insvolte a Città Mexicodel CityMessico, Rio de Janeiro, SaoSan Paolo, Taipei, Toronto, Cambridge, Helsinki, HamburgAmburgo, ThessalonikiSalonicco, PraguePraga, WarsawVarsavia, AthensAtene, Los Angeles ande LisbonLisbona. Treut’sIl firstprimo featurelungometraggio, co-directeddiretto withcon Elfi Mikesch, wasè thestato il controversialcontroverso ''Seduction: The Cruel Woman,1985,'' whichdel since has become a cult classic1985. TheNel black2002 andsi white coming-out tale Virgin Machine followed in 1988. My Father Is Coming,reca a comedy of manners set in New York, was released in 1991Taiwan. InLì 1992, Treut began directing documentaries including Femaleha Misbehaviorscritto, fourdiretto portraitse of bad girls, among them Annie Sprinkle and Camille Paglia; Didn’t Do It For Love in 1997, a portrait of Norwegianco-bornprodotto Evatre Norvind,documentari B-movietra star in Mexico, later dominatrix in New York; Gendernauts in 1999, about a group portrait of transgendered cyborgs in San Francisco. In 2001 Treut completed Warrior of Light, on Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, an internationally renowned artist and human rights activist who works with endangered children in the streets and slums of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2002 Treut is infatuated with Taiwan. There she wrote, directed and co-produced 3 documentaries,cui Tigerwomen Grow Wings about three generations of women, featuring well-known writer Li Ang, famed opera singer Hsieh Yueh Hsia and young film director DJ Chen.e Made in Taiwan, a portrait of a 17-year-old dance student followed in 2005. InNel 2009 Treut releasedha realizzato Ghosted, asu featureun'insolita filmstoria aboutd'amore antra unsualAmburgo love story between Hamburg ande Taipei. Most recently anotherPiù documentaryrecentemente washa finishedcompletato The Raw and the Cooked, aun culinaryviaggio journeyculinario throughattraverso Taiwan, whichpresentato aptlyin premieresanteprima atalla thesezione 2012del Berlinfestival internationalcinematografico filminternazionale festival’sdi sectionBerlino del 2012 Culinary Cinema. SinceDal 1990 Treutinsegna hase alsotiene beenlezioni teachingpresso and lecturing at CollegesCollege (Vassar, Hollins, ande Dartmouth), Art Institutes (SFAI) ande UniversitiesUniversità (IU Bloomington, UI Chicago, UC San Diego ande Cornell U) innegli theStati U.SUniti. Treut runsgestisce thela independentsocietà filmdi productionproduzione company,cinematografica indipendente Hyena Films, with offices in Hamburg, Germany.(hyenafilms.com/en/about-monika-treut/biography/)
* Nel 1985 ''Verführung: Die grausame Frau'' (1985) è proiettato a Berlino nella sezione Forum
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