THE REVOLUTION OF DESIRE

Sunday, June 7th – 7:00 pm

THE REVOLUTION OF DESIRE SCREENING AND PERFORMANCES
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
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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 unconditional 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.

The Mountain Bar
473 Gin Ling Way, Los Angeles, Ca, 90012
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Guy Hocquenghem (1946–1988), essayist and activist, is often credited as the father of Queer theory. He is the author of Homosexual Desire (1972) and L'Amour en relief (1982), both available in English. The Screwball Asses is his first work available from Semiotext(e) read here