Sexual Revolution
Johanna Demetrakas/Lionel Soukaz/Smith Jack
with the cinema Méliès
(1974, 47 min, Color)
"In 1972, an exposure was created about which one spoke
much: "Womanhouse". Under the direction of Miriam Shapiro
and Judy Chicago which became major figures of feminist art in the
Seventies and Eighties (...), twenty-four women (whose Faith Wilding)
arranged a house in Los Angeles. Space domestic becoming space
of exposure, the distinction between public and private disappeared
and conventions governing the representation flew in glares; the
bathroom and the doll's house became spaces of exposure "suitable"
with feminist art "Womanhouse" encensait what was regarded as
commonplace: the beauty products, the tampons, the household
linen, the shower caps and the underclothing became highly artistic
materials. All the media were interested in it, by often
carrying out reports with feeling; the exposure brought the
proof that feminist art had a public many and impassioned "Peggy
Phelan, Art and Feminism, éd. Phaidon.
Womanhouse is a documentary extraordinary history on one of the
feminist cultural events most important of the Seventies in the United
States. It does not limit to being the witness of several famous
performances such Waiting (Waiting) of Faith Wilding or Cock and cunt
play (the part of the cock and the she-cat) of Judy Chicago, as well
as various parts of the exposure-house Nurturant Kitchen (feeder
Kitchen), Menstruation Bathroom (the bathroom of the rules), Nightmare
Bathroom (the bathroom of the nightmares) or of the installation Linen
Closet (Wall cupboard with linen), but also recalls the workshops of
collective awakenings, the interactions with the public, and all the
energy of this time. KQ&AI (distribution:
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The gay walk of Lionel Soukaz
(13 ', 1980)/ in its presence
"Lionel Soukaz is a rare author. It films without taboo, without concession. Child of May 68, he is that of the sexual release, the pleasure of living with excess his desires, drug, the sex. Sensitive witness of its time, that which films his/her friends, Guy Hocquenghem, Copi and the others less famous, films also the tragedy of the AIDS, of the meetings of Act Up to the white walls of the hospital. To speak about its style, its tone, his/her friend, the philosopher Rene Schérer, evokes "a despaired vitality", Nicole Brenez, fighting experimental cinema, qualifies its cinema "of political Eros". "Aude Lavigne, France culture, 2002
Flaming Creatures of Smith Jack
(1963, 45min, the United States)
Flaming Creatures is turned on 16 out-of-date mm. A rare and famous film for its aspect innovative and shocking. A sexual film and sexually deviating where mix orientalism, vampirism, earthquake and transvestites in a quasi single sequence of dionysiaque orgy. Censured for its pornographic character the film however draws more on the side of the Greek tragedy. Ginsberg greeted of it the artistic free expression and its propensity with dissidence. (Cineclub of Toulouse).
See also the article of Yann Beauvais:
http://manou16.phpnet.org/article_us.php3?id_article=73
Texts: KQ&AI





