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Movies provide dreams in which we can experience worlds we have not found, lives we have not known, and stories we can to compare our own. And films like them have sustained and challenged the inner lives of many gay men. These are gay movies I would never have seen without a film festival showing. The rigid rituals of military life are contrasted with the emotional immaturity of the ‘squaddies’ in a balletic visual movement. Composed against a stark East African landscape, it is a story of jealousy and repressed passions that ultimately lead to destruction.
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Claire Denis‘ movie is loosely based on Herman Melville’s novella, Billy Budd, and set in a Foreign Legion outpost in Djibouti. A curious mix of pagan vision and Christian denial, it was an idiosyncratic look at another era.Īnd, more recently, how could I forget Beau Travail in 2000. While the other soldiers manifest an uninhibited enjoyment of each other’s bodies in slo-mo bathing scenes set to music by Brian Eno, Sebastiane’s ecstasies are more religious.
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It was set in the Roman Empire, where the emperor’s boyfriend, Sebastiane, is exiled to a remote outpost because of his new-found Christianity. In my own memory, it is a movie of shadows, darkness and window-grills, accompanied by the sound of Granada’s fountains and with all the poignancy of lost times never to be recovered.ĭerek Jarman’s Sebastiane from 1976, is the only movie ever to be entirely made in Latin, and was another festival offering to make an impact.
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Then there was To an Unknown God ( A un dios desconocido), where a discreet homosexual, a middle-aged professional magician, comes to terms with his past which involved an adolescent affair and love for the celebrated poet Federico Garcia Lorca in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War. He meets two gay men from a different and superior social milieu, but when Fox wins the lottery, the movie becomes a hard and cynical depiction of how he is fleeced.
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I saw my first Rainer Werner Fassbinder movie, Fox and his Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit), at the 1975 Film Festival in Wellington, where Germany’s most famous gay director played Fox, a working-class former circus performer, down on his luck. From the very beginning, the screening of movies with a wide range of sexual expression seemed to be part of their offering. They would both merge with other centres to form the national group, the New Zealand International Film Festivals, in 2009. The Auckland International Film Festival was founded in 1969, Wellington’s in 1972. There is a secret sharing that happens in ways that do not occur at other times, in other places. Laughter comes at different places from a movie with a predominantly straight audience. There is also something unique about attending a gay movie with a largely gay audience – or at least people drawn by the subject matter. They have been far more nourishing for the human psyche. Whereas television will offer authorised versions with sexual variance buried deep in a sub-text or dealt with in flat caricature, movies have traditionally provided a deeper, more subtle experience. Exploration of one’s own sexual desires will often occur through movie characters and movie plots. David Herkt explores this history, what it means, and one of this year’s featured movies.Ī personal history is also, inevitably, a history of movies seen. Each year the New Zealand International Film Festival brings gay-themed movies to an audience.