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Lionel Soukaz, Stéphane Gérard
Documentary : 66' / Art & Artists, Community, Autobiographical, HIV-AIDS

In 1991, Lionel Soukaz began his “Journal Annales”, filming his ‘community of fags, poor people and drug addicts’ as they confronted the AIDS epidemic, over 2.000 hours in which public events intersect with the intimacy of their daily lives. Faced with the impossibility of producing a montage that would capture the richness of this approach, for this installation Stéphane Gérard and Lionel Soukaz focus on associations, mobilisations, meetings: collective forms of commitment among the diversity of fronts of struggle.

QL - Retrospective
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Year: 2021

Country: France

Language: french

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Hervé Couergou, Christophe Martet, Cleews Vellay, Didier Lestrade, Hélène Hazera, Hugues Charbonneau, Jean Le Bitoux, José Cunéo

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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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