Man for a Day

Man for a Day

Katarina Peters, 2012, 96’

The film follows a workshop led by New York performance artist Diane Torr in Berlin. Torr comes together with a group of women to do a wry experiment on sexuality and gender roles. These women spend a week with Diane to become men by discussing what it means to be a man and its secrets. This social experiment called “Gender Lab” virtually puts into practice the complexity of problems of gender identity and theoretical gender studies we are used to reading in books. On the last day of the workshop, when they venture onto the streets of Berlin dressed as men, they find that some things in life will never be the same. “Man for a Day,” in which women appear wearing their fathers’ moustaches, is a witty study on social identity…