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Cinématon (1978)

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Courant
CAST:  Fernando Arrabal  •  Roberto Benigni  •  Alain-Alcide Sudre  •  Gaël Badaud

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Courant
CAST:  Fernando Arrabal  •  Roberto Benigni  •  Alain-Alcide Sudre  •  Gaël Badaud

L'impossible - Pages arrachées (2009)

Situated in the vein of Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Dostoievski and Benjamin and of free jazz and punk, this film bears witness to the iniquitous policies that shape our era, the “infernal” nature of certain political lives or black bodies (those of immigrants, emigrants ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sylvain George
CAST:  Lionel Soukaz

Situated in the vein of Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Dostoievski and Benjamin and of free jazz and punk, this film bears witness to the iniquitous policies that shape our era, the “infernal” nature of certain political lives or black bodies (those of immigrants, emigrants ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sylvain George
CAST:  Lionel Soukaz

Nu lacté (2002)

Othello Vilgard, Xavier Baert and Lionel Soukaz filmed a performance by Tom de Pékin.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Xavier Baert  •  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Tom de Pékin

Othello Vilgard, Xavier Baert and Lionel Soukaz filmed a performance by Tom de Pékin.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Xavier Baert  •  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Tom de Pékin

Bout tabou (2019)

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Ixe (1980)

“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made to be projected on four screens at once, X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the four ends of the cross, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Lionel Soukaz  •  Jean-François B.  •  François Dantchev  •  Hervé Leymarie

“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made to be projected on four screens at once, X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the four ends of the cross, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Lionel Soukaz  •  Jean-François B.  •  François Dantchev  •  Hervé Leymarie

Tino (1985)

A contemporary scenario, in which American journalist Doug Ireland visits Europe and meets an oppressed young Arab man, is played against the celebrated story of Emperor Hadrian’s relationship with his favourite Antinous.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz  •  Guy Hocquenghem
CAST:  Guy Hocquenghem  •  Douglas Ireland  •  Khaled Mahmoud  •  Myriam Mézières

A contemporary scenario, in which American journalist Doug Ireland visits Europe and meets an oppressed young Arab man, is played against the celebrated story of Emperor Hadrian’s relationship with his favourite Antinous.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz  •  Guy Hocquenghem
CAST:  Guy Hocquenghem  •  Douglas Ireland  •  Khaled Mahmoud  •  Myriam Mézières

Hervé, mon ami (1994)

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La Loi X - La nuit en permanence (2001)

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Guy and Co (2016)

Five young people reincarnate Guy Hocquenghem, who died in 1988, novelist and philosopher, founder of the FHAR who, all his life, refused to identify with a single role and made his work and his life a utopia of crossbreeding, nomadism and desires.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
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Five young people reincarnate Guy Hocquenghem, who died in 1988, novelist and philosopher, founder of the FHAR who, all his life, refused to identify with a single role and made his work and his life a utopia of crossbreeding, nomadism and desires.  (more)

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Ballad for a Lonely Man (1968)

"I filmed my boyfriend at the time and tried to strip him, but in fact it's a film about ecology." -Soukaz Soukaz's first film, though lost for many years until it was finally recovered.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
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"I filmed my boyfriend at the time and tried to strip him, but in fact it's a film about ecology." -Soukaz Soukaz's first film, though lost for many years until it was finally recovered.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
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Lolo Mégalo blessé en son honneur (1974)

First short film from garçon terrible réalisateur Lionel Soukaz.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Lionel Soukaz

First short film from garçon terrible réalisateur Lionel Soukaz.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Lionel Soukaz

Boy Friend II (1977)

The voice-over of “Boyfriend 2”, a manifesto for the liberation of adolescent sexuality, intertwines texts by Pasolini, Soukaz, Duvert, Matzneff, while initiating a unique reflection around the relationships between image and pornography, which will soon face a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
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The voice-over of “Boyfriend 2”, a manifesto for the liberation of adolescent sexuality, intertwines texts by Pasolini, Soukaz, Duvert, Matzneff, while initiating a unique reflection around the relationships between image and pornography, which will soon face a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
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The Sex of the Angels (1977)

A fantasia on the inner lives of gay teenagers in '70s France.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Alain  •  Pierre Benz  •  Michel Cyprien  •  Olivier Desbordes

A fantasia on the inner lives of gay teenagers in '70s France.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Alain  •  Pierre Benz  •  Michel Cyprien  •  Olivier Desbordes

Race d'Ep! (1979)

"Race d’Ep!" (which literally translates to "Breed of Faggots") was made by the “father of queer theory,” Guy Hocquenghem, in collaboration with radical queer filmmaker and provocateur Lionel Soukaz. The film traces the history of modern homosexuality through the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz  •  Guy Hocquenghem
CAST:  Elizar Van Effenterre  •  Gilles Sandier  •  Pierre Hahn  •  Jean Demelier

"Race d’Ep!" (which literally translates to "Breed of Faggots") was made by the “father of queer theory,” Guy Hocquenghem, in collaboration with radical queer filmmaker and provocateur Lionel Soukaz. The film traces the history of modern homosexuality through the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz  •  Guy Hocquenghem
CAST:  Elizar Van Effenterre  •  Gilles Sandier  •  Pierre Hahn  •  Jean Demelier

La marche gaie (1980)

A short documentary about the October 14 1979 March For Lesbian And Gay Rights in Washington D.C.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Allen Ginsberg  •  Guy Hocquenghem

A short documentary about the October 14 1979 March For Lesbian And Gay Rights in Washington D.C.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Allen Ginsberg  •  Guy Hocquenghem

Maman que man (1982)

Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Didier Hercend  •  Luc Bernard  •  Marie-Thonon  •  Copi

Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
CAST:  Didier Hercend  •  Luc Bernard  •  Marie-Thonon  •  Copi

Cinématon V (1979)

Reel 5 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Courant
CAST:  Élizabeth Kaufmann  •  Raphaël Bassan  •  Noël Simsolo  •  Nicole-Lise Bernheim

Reel 5 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Courant
CAST:  Élizabeth Kaufmann  •  Raphaël Bassan  •  Noël Simsolo  •  Nicole-Lise Bernheim

Paris Chausey (1975)

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DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz
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DIRECTION:  Lionel Soukaz  •  Tony Tonnerre
CAST:  Tony Tonnerre

Vers l'Inde (2000)

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