RV, mon ami - Movie - Festival QUEER

RV, mon ami

Lionel Soukaz
Documentary : 28' / Relationship, HIV-AIDS

“My friend ‘RV’ died on 1 August 1994 at the age of 32. We had known each other for 12 years. I believe that this 28-minute video, started on the morning of his death, is an impulse, the ultimate truth, because it draws from the emotion of life by simply bearing witness to it”. (Lionel Soukaz)

Sections: QL - Retrospective
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Year: 1994

Country: France

Language: no dialogues

With: Hervé Couergou, Lionel Soukaz, Pablo Perez, Tony Bouilhet

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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.