11th edition

festival of
queer cinema

maison des arts du grütli, geneva

Everybody’s Perfect - Festival de cinéma Queer

04____13
october 2024

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11th edition

festival of
queer cinema

maison des arts du grütli, geneva

04____13
october 2024

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when French gay porn was making it’s way to the cinema

Between 1975, when the “X” classification was introduced, and 1983, when VHS copies became more widespread and the HIV/AIDS epidemic began, 75 French homosexual pornographic films shot on film were officially released in cinemas. A quasi-fertile decade for gay porn cinema, with scripted works of undeniable cinematic quality, far removed from the pseudo-schematic scenarios of today’s porn industry.

Almost 50 years later, what do these works tell us about this unique period, when homosexuality was still criminalised? How did pornographic creation help to overcome power relations? Is gay porn culture linked to the activism of the 1970s? Who is responsible for this flourishing production? What erotic and sexual imaginaries are being constructed? And finally, what do these archival images tell us about our contemporary relationship with porn?

The discussion between Hervé Joseph Lebrun and Robin Corminboeuf invites us to travel back in time to understand this flourishing period of homosexual pornographic production.

With Hervé Joseph Lebrun, filmmaker and photographer, former director of the Chéries-Chéris festival, he is a specialist in French porn of the 1970s, and Robin Corminboeuf, former editor-in-chief of the queer Romand magazine 360° and author of a first novel, he is currently in charge of the press office of the Visions du Réel and GIFF festivals..

stands- the glitter, grütli arts house

Fri. 04 – 21:15
(Salle Langlois)
99 min.
– fiction
(1980)
vo : fr
/ sous-titres : en
18 ans
Dietrich
de Velsa
alias Francis
Savel
FR
Long-métrage
Twenty-four hours in the life of a biker on winter roads: an encounter with a gas station attendant drenched in petrol and grease, locker room orgies, early morning embraces—the daily lives of men navigating who play pinball, the “game over” on a changing world that we know will soon turn merciless. A masterpiece of melancholic […]
Fri. 04 – 21:30
(Salle Simon)
Mon. 07 – 21:00
(Salle Simon)
Wed. 09 – 16:15
(Salle Simon)
Sun. 13 – 19:45
(Salle Simon)

sem coração heartless

95 min.
– fiction
(2023)
vo : pt
/ sous-titres : fr
14 ans
Nara Normande
et Tião
BR, FR, IT
Long-métrage
1996, in a small fishing village in the Northeast of Brazil, it is the last summer for Tamara, before going to study in Brasilia. Her nonchalant days with her group of friends are lulled by swimming, discussions in the palm trees, night dances, exploring abandoned buildings and unoccupied villas. There she meets the mysterious Sem […]
Sat. 05 – 14:30
(MEG)
Tue. 08 – 18:30
(MEG)
Événement
A decolonial and queer tour of the “Mémoires. Genève dans le monde colonial” exhibition at the Musée d’ethnographie de Genève (MEG) This guided oriented tour is intended as a dialog between visitors, guides, the exhibition and the museum. Through situated perspectives, the aim is to question the practices and knowledge underlying the exhibition “Mémoires. Geneva […]
Sat. 05 – 14:45
(Salle Langlois)
Thu. 10 – 16:30
(Salle Langlois)
Sun. 13 – 15:30
(Salle Simon)
Courts-métrages
OLD LESBIANSMeghan McDonough – United States29 min – doc. (2023) – vo : angA collection of 800 life stories from lesbians across the United States, the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project was launched over 25 years ago. Some of these women are now sharing their stories with great joy!  FALLING FOR GRETAGustavo Arteaga – United […]

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