Movies: Lionel Soukaz

While his mother is dying of cancer, Laurent starts a relationship with a handsome stranger who promises to help him with a film carreer....

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Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...

Reel 5 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....

A fantasia on the inner lives of gay teenagers in '70s France....

"Race d’Ep!" (which literally translates to "Breed of Faggots") was made by the “father of queer theory,” Guy Hocquenghem, in collaboration with radical queer filmmaker and provocateur Lionel Soukaz. The film traces the history of modern homosexualit...

A contemporary scenario, in which American journalist Doug Ireland visits Europe and meets an oppressed young Arab man, is played against the celebrated story of Emperor Hadrian’s relationship with his favourite Antinous....

In 1991, Lionel Soukaz initiated his Journal annales, filming his "community of fags, poor people, and drug addicts" confronted with the AIDS epidemic, in 2,000 hours where public events intersect with the intimacy of his daily life. Faced with the i...

“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made to be projected on four screens at once, X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the four end...

Othello Vilgard, Xavier Baert and Lionel Soukaz filmed a performance by Tom from Beijing: one strips himself naked while the others veil and reveal the film....

Lionel Soukaz followed Tom de Pékin in Paris, filming a succession of quick portraits of the graphic designer's entourage in a playful rhythm. music : The Brain, Kerozen voices : Tom de Pékin, Katharina...

After a military coup d'état, political dissidents seek refuge in a foreign embassy. Over the next few days, they are joined by more and more people who are fleeing the military assault: teachers, students, intellectuals, artists, and politicians....

Once, for a minute, a man said what he thought, and you could see him thinking from his guts, as if they were coming out of his mouth....

Auto-portrait....

Daily spleen, drunkenness among friends, conversations and the passage of time: the video diaries composed by Lionel Soukaz chronicle the early 1990s, the comet tail of those never-ending winter years and the nightmare of the AIDS years. But edited t...

A film by Lionel Soukaz...

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A trip to Andalusia, filmed from the window of a bus, hand on his companion’s bulge....

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