Tribute to Lionel Soukaz

Screening in partnership with the CNC-Direction du patrimoine cinématographique-Archives françaises du film

On 4 February this year, Lionel Soukaz, a leading director of homosexual and avant-garde cinema, a free, joyful and dazzling spirit, passed away.
We paid tribute to him with Stéphane Gérard, friend and work companion.

RACE D’EP 2 LE TROISIÈME SEXE
1979, France, 37 min
This second part of Race d’ep pays tribute to the work of Magnus Hirschfeld, the first researcher to study human sexuality, whose laboratory was destroyed by the Nazis

IXE
1980, France, 48 min
“X is a dismemberment: at the four cardinal points, at the four ends of the cross, War, Sex, Religion and Drugs.”
(Guy Hocquenghem)

LA LOI X – LA NUIT EN PERMANENCE
2001, France, 14 min
On the end of an unexpected golden age, that of cinema X.