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Carottage

Lionel Soukaz, Powers, Stéphane Gérard
Documentary, Experimental : 47' / Art & Artists, Politics, Human Rights, Community

The “Journal Annales” consists of almost 2.000 hours of video footage collected by filmmaker Lionel Soukaz since 1991. For “Carottage”, the idea was to take a random sample from this vast volume, like a geological core sample. The result is a condensed history of political struggles and radical cultural experimentation spanning two decades.

Sections: QL - Retrospective
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Year: 2009

Country: France

Language: french, english

Subtitles: portuguese

With: René Schérer, Carole Roussopoulos, Jean-Luc Godard, René Vautier, Frédéric Oberland, Ta Minh Van, Yves-Marie Mahé, Hamé, Archie Shepp, Pierre Guyotat, Othello Vilgard, Robert Fenz, Edouard Nikitine, Boris Charmatz, Jess Franco, Camille Cabral, Pascale Ourbih, Eugène Sathoud, Macha Méril, Zouzou, Denis Lavant, F. J. Ossang,

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Lionel Soukaz, Powers, 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