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The Revolution of Desire Screenings and Performances
Please join us in celebrating the closing of the show Screwball
Asses at the Company in Chinatown featuring artworks by Gene
Barnes AKA Portia Manson, Sheyla Baykal, Gary Lee Boas,
Robert Alan Hyde, Hedi El Kholti, Matt Fishbeck, Mark Flores,
Paul Gellman, David Jones, William E. Jones, Brian Kenny,
Slava Mogutin, and Donnie & Travis; and the upcoming release
by Semiotext(e) of Guy Hocquenghem’s pamphlet, The
Screwball Asses. Perfomances at The Company at 7:30 PM
by Tall Paul + Mare, and Alex Black + Samuel Vasquez.
The Company 946 Yale Street, Los Angeles, Ca, 90012 http://www.thecompanyart.com/pages/home/ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Screening at the Mountain Bar at 8:30 PM of The Revolution of Desire
by Alessandro Avellis & Gabriele Ferluga, 2006 (52 mn).
The Revolution of Desire explores the nebulous post-’68
circumstances that birthed the sexual liberation movement
in France, and interrogates its transformation from a
grassroots rebellion to an effort to normalize homosexuals.
Referencing the work of impassioned activists and intriguingly
titled essays Le rapport contre la normalité (“A Report Against
Normalcy”) and Trois milliards de pervers (“Three Billion
Perverts”) , the film sketches the lives of Guy Hocquenghem
and Françoise d’Eaubonne, brilliant intellectuals and un-
conditional supporters of the “revolution of desire.”
We meet philosopher René Schérer, MLF photographer
Catherine Deudon, militant filmmaker Carole Roussopoulos,
Guy’s brother Joani Hocquenghem, historian Marie-Jo
Bonnet, the Panthères roses and numerous other key players.
The Revolution of Desire is a rare and valuable document
that explores the past but more importantly questions the
present.
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