Catherine Crouch
Catherine Crouch is a lesbian filmmaker whose film The Gendercator garnered controversy in 2007.
Filmography
- Osco Bag (1996)
- Vanilla Lament - 16mm - (1997)
- One Small Step - 16mm - (1999)
- A Christmas Sacrifice (1999)
- Stray Dogs (2001)
- Stray Dogs was Crouch's first feature-length film. IMDB describes the film as: "A mother must choose between love and devotion to her sons and unborn child or staying with her sexy, maniacal husband and his patriarchal sister, who respectively fulfill her physical and emotional needs." The film starred Guinevere Turner.
- Pretty Ladies - super 8mm - (2002)
- The Gendercator - super 8mm, miniDV - (2007)
- Buttery Top - super 8mm, miniDV - (2009)
- A Pirate in Alphabet City - HD Animation - (2010)
Controversy
Crouch became most famous from the controversy which resulted from her 20-minute film The Gendercator, which many transgender people and their allies saw as transphobic. The filmmaker has a body of work of nine films, all of which have been screened at Frameline. The Gendercator, her latest about a 1970s lesbian who wakes up in 2048 where strict binary roles are enforced was pulled from Frameline, the first film to be pulled in its 31 year history. Frameline viewed the film, approved it for the LGBT festival and put it into the programming. It is a fantasy film that was to be screened with other futuristic and experimental films in the Outer Limits section.[1] Later Frameline yielded to an online protest with approx 130 signatures from the site Left on SF[2] "News and (mostly) opinion from San Francisco’s economic left", which according to Crouch, only six of which had seen the film. Crouch has been invited to San Francisco by Ondine Kilker[3] to screen her film in the fall of 2007. Currently (2010), The Gendercator is the only film in Frameline's history to ever be removed due to controversy.