Le Sexe des anges - Movie - Festival QUEER

Le Sexe des anges

Lionel Soukaz
Fiction, Experimental : 45' / Explicit Content, Gay, Bodies

A series of sketches celebrating the male body and showing homosexual sexuality in full bloom. Pointing the finger to the society of the 1970s, which repressed and channelled teenage sexuality into a single sexuality, forcing people to conceal their sexuality, creating a ghetto for everything else, and engendering the forbidden. This society imposes predetermined roles on each sex. In order to exist, young homosexuals find refuge in imagery linked to transvestism. There is no such thing as the innocence of teenagers; unlike the angels with whom they are often associated, they assert their sexuality.

Sections: QL - Retrospective
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Year: 1977

Country: France

Language: french

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Bruno Maddaléna, Tom Myers, Patrice Gouron, Kamel Tounssi, Alain, Jean-Louis, Dominique, Didou, Olivier Desbordes, Dominique et Laurent, Patrick Talhouarn, François Duprat, François Fries, Michel Cyprien, Pierre Benz, David Jackson

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Lionel Soukaz

France

Lionel Soukaz (1953-2025, France) was one of the pioneers of French queer cinema. The first phase of his work synthetises the various avant-garde movements he was drawn to in the 1970s and 1980s. Affiliated with the activists and intellectuals of FHAR (the Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action) and the magazine Gai Pied, such as Guy Hocquenghem or Copi, he was also active within the experimental film scene, and organised the first Gay and Lesbian film festival in Paris, Écrans roses et nuits bleues, in 1978. His films, rediscovered in 2004 thanks mainly to the advocacy of French critic Nicole Brenez, display an uncompromising commitment to self-narration and the expression of desire, and embody his unlimited craving for freedom – as a result of which his work has often faced censorship.