Double Feature: Two Films by Monika Treut

Ever since the release of her debut feature Seduction: The Cruel Woman (made in collaboration with filmmaker and longtime cinematographer Elfi Mikesch) in 1985, Hamburg-based filmmaker Monika Treut has devoted herself to depicting and documenting queer lives on screen, exploring the mysteries and ambiguities of gender, and transgressing repressive sexual mores and ideas. Fiercely controversial in her native Germany—where Die Zeit once proclaimed that “films like Monika Treut’s are destroying cinema”—Treut found much more acceptance for her work in the burgeoning queer film festival and independent film scenes in America, leading to several decadeslong collaborations with queer icons like trans poet Max Wolf Valerio and “post-porn modernist” Annie Sprinkle.

Paradise is proud to present a double feature of two of Treut’s preeminent features- newly restored by Muscle Distribution. Join us on January 16th for SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN followed by VIRGIN MACHINE.

15 minute intermission between films.

Doors Open 30 Minutes Before Showtime.