Lionel Soukaz: Militant Desire
This programme contains 2 films.
Lionel Soukaz is a pivotal figure in European queer cinema: a filmmaker, collaborator with queer theorist Guy Hocquenghem and organiser of the first festivals of Cinémas Différents in France. Combining the pop cultural ironies of Jack Smith and Kenneth Anger with protest cinema, his films target the norms of heterosexual and homosexual culture alike, calling for the end of identity and the free reign of desire. Writer/curator Paul Clinton presents two works by Soukaz with an illustrated lecture.
Royal Opera
Part 4 of Lionel Soukaz’s feature Race d’Ep (1979).
Director
Lionel Soukaz
Production Country
FranceProduction Year
1979Duration
24 mins
Ixe
“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French – like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the four ends of the cross, War, Sex, Religion and Drugs.” —Guy Hocquenghem
Director
Lionel Soukaz
Production Country
FranceProduction Year
1980Duration
45 mins