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Frédéric Moffet

Jean Genet in Chicago

    RELEASE

    2006-10-01

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    LENGTH

    26 min

    Description

    A queer rewriting of the events surrounding the 1968 National Democratic Convention from the point of view of the controversial French writer. This “thief-video” combines disparate textual sources, contemporary reenactments of historical events and archival footage in order to relate the uneasy fusion of the French poet’s criminalized sexuality with late 60s American counter-culture.

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