The COVID 19 Lockdown didn’t inhibit our coverage of Film Festivals last year and in fact we featured even more than usual in Queerguru, albeit from the comfort of our own Office. Whilst we missed seeing movies on the big screen in the flesh as they should be seen, we did love the fact as Festivals went online they could reach a far wider audience … sometimes even global.
So here kicking off with our first festival of new year which is the second edition of Film Maudit in L.A. This festival of outré films. was inspired by legendary artist Jean Cocteau’s festival, Le Film Maudit, which celebrated a group of films that were criminally overlooked and neglected at the time.
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The term film “maudit” literally means “cursed films,” and this showcase of counter-cinema will blend together narrative, documentary and experimental films that in their style and/or subject matter, are deliberately bold, extreme, confrontational, troubling, shocking and/or unusual.
The eclectic program of films that are streaming FREE include such queer goodies as Ask Any Buddy : a compilation of gay porn from the 60’s to the 80″s; Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure; and Reza Abdoh – Theater Visionary the story of the queer Iranian wunderkind
Film Maudit will also include BEHOLD! Queer Film & Performance Series with events such as Hi-Kicks Entrails, and also QLX: The Performance of Queer Latinx w/ Mexicali.
The festival is co-presented by Southern California’s boldest center for new performance and media arts, Highways Performance Space & Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. In its 31st year, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages radical artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative new works.
Film Maudit January 12th - 24th For the whole Program and info on How To Book click :HERE
Labels: 2021, Festival Maudit
