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christine in the cutting room

multimedia projects

Christine in the Cutting Room is a multimedia project by Susan Stryker centered on the life and career of Christine Jorgensen. Across films, lectures, and performances, the project explores the relationship between cinema, trans embodiment, and technology, drawing on Jorgensen’s own background as a photographer and filmmaker and her involvement in making her public image.

· christine in the cutting room

short film · 2012

Christine in the Cutting Room is an experimental short film by Susan Stryker about the 1950s transsexual celebrity Christine Jorgensen. Drawing on her training as a photographer and filmmaker and her use of image-making techniques, the film moves between documentary and art, using archival images, sound, and music to explore the relationship between cinema, trans embodiment, and technology.

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