Films by Peter Stockhaus

Germany 2004, 59 min
by Peter Sempel (SUNMUSICFILM.COM)

Kazuo Ohno is a documentary about the 97year-old dancer Kazuo Ohno, the founder and living legend of the Butoh-dance. He still gives dancing-lessons at his studio in Yokohama. "Butoh" is the "step in the dark", inspired by the German Expressionist Dance. There are two other main characters beside Kazuo: Yoshito Ohno, his son who dances with him, speaks for him and organizes his belongings, a very big support. And as well Tanya Khabarowa, as a wonderful contrast, a young Russian Butohdancer from

Germany, Austria 2001, 60 min
by Ingrid Molnar

Not only materialism, high rents, and a shortage of space, but also a certain lifestyle (still) quite different from the European way of living, have made private self storage neccessary for example in New York. Armed with a camera, the Hamburg-based Viennese filmmaker observed how people in New York make their lives easier or an income for living possible through renting small rooms in large storage buildings, where they store the likes of clothes, books and videotapes. Some visit their locker

Germany 1999, 86 min
by Monika Treut (Hyena Films e.K.)

GENDERNAUTS explores phenomena of gender fluidity at the end of the millennium in the Bay Area, California. It is a film about cyborgs, people who alter their bodies and minds with new technologies and chemistry, with an emphasis on biological women who use the male sexual hormone testosterone. We get to know San Francisco’s leading gender mixers: Max Wolf Valerio, who reads from his book, Max, A Man; Jordy Jones and his net art; Texas Tomboy and his video art; Stafford, who explores new busines