Artistes en Zone Troublés
Lionel Soukaz, Stéphane Gérard
Documentary : 39' / Art & Artists, Relationship, Autobiographical, HIV-AIDS

His lover since 1982, Hervé Couergou becomes filmmaker Lionel Soukaz's partner during the painful first years of the AIDS epidemic. They share their friends, lovers, creation, moments of despair and joy, their life so to say. Artistes en Zone Troublés, from a diary that will span 2.000 hours over decades, tells the story of Hervé and Lionel, how their relationship becomes a shelter in the middle of a storm, but also the poetic genius that even death can't silence, expressed through the tapes of this video diary, their correspondence, music recordings and the colorful pages of their notepads.

QL - Retrospective
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Year: 2023

Country: France

Language: french

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Hervé Couergou, José Cunéo, Pablo Pérez, Diego Vecchio, Michel Journiac, Jacques Miège, Didier Hercend, Christiane

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Lionel Soukaz, Stéphane Gérard

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.

 

Born in 1987, Stéphane Gérard lives and works in Paris. His experimental cinema focuses on the history of mobilisations and representation politics of gender, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS and people of color. His practices include a reflexion on audiovisual archives preservation, film programming and distribution through the What’s Your Flavor? collective.
 

Photo: Camilo Godoy

 

 


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