Lionel Soukaz Trailers
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Total trailers found: 40
15 October 1982
While his mother is dying of cancer, Laurent starts a relationship with a handsome stranger who promises to help him with a film carreer.
18 November 2016
Five young people reincarnate Guy Hocquenghem, who died in 1988, novelist and philosopher, founder of the FHAR who, all his life, refused to identify with a single role and made his work and his life a utopia of crossbreeding, nomadism and desires.
21 March 2023
Daily spleen, drunkenness among friends, conversations and the passage of time: the video diaries composed by Lionel Soukaz chronicle the early 1990s, the comet tail of those never-ending winter years and the nightmare of the AIDS years.
01 January 1980
A short documentary about the October 14 1979 March For Lesbian And Gay Rights in Washington D.C.
23 June 1980
“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film.
20 December 1978
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.
01 January 1985
A contemporary scenario, in which American journalist Doug Ireland visits Europe and meets an oppressed young Arab man, is played against the celebrated story of Emperor Hadrian’s relationship with his favourite Antinous.
05 December 2012
Situated in the vein of Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Dostoievski and Benjamin and of free jazz and punk, this film bears witness to the iniquitous policies that shape our era, the “infernal” nature of certain political lives or black bodies (those of immigrants, emigrants, workers, the unemployed, students.
13 December 2002
Othello Vilgard, Xavier Baert and Lionel Soukaz filmed a performance by Tom from Beijing: one strips himself naked while the others veil and reveal the film.
31 December 1973
After a military coup d'état, political dissidents seek refuge in a foreign embassy. Over the next few days, they are joined by more and more people who are fleeing the military assault: teachers, students, intellectuals, artists, and politicians.
05 January 2026
From his childhood in a modest family in the Pyrénées to his unexpected career as a porn actor in the 1970s, the film traces the life of Claude Loir, who set out to fully embrace life.
15 December 2021
In 1991, Lionel Soukaz initiated his Journal annales, filming his "community of fags, poor people, and drug addicts" confronted with the AIDS epidemic, in 2,000 hours where public events intersect with the intimacy of his daily life.
01 January 1993
An "action" by Michel Journiac, performed at the book fair on March the 16th, 1993, where he exhibited 150 poems marked with his own blood.
30 August 1977
A fantasia on the inner lives of gay teenagers in '70s France.
24 October 1979
"Race d’Ep!" (which literally translates to "Breed of Faggots") was made by the “father of queer theory,” Guy Hocquenghem, in collaboration with radical queer filmmaker and provocateur Lionel Soukaz.
11 December 2002
Lionel Soukaz followed Tom de Pékin in Paris, filming a succession of quick portraits of the graphic designer's entourage in a playful rhythm.
07 February 2019
Founded in the second half of the 1990s, the experimental film association L'Etna witnessed the transition from film to digital cinema.
28 June 1977
The voice-over of “Boyfriend 2”, a manifesto for the liberation of adolescent sexuality, intertwines texts by Pasolini, Soukaz, Duvert, Matzneff, while initiating a unique reflection around the relationships between image and pornography, which will soon face a third term called “censorship”.
25 November 2000
Once, for a minute, a man said what he thought, and you could see him thinking from his guts, as if they were coming out of his mouth.
01 January 2001
Dedicated to Nicole Brenez, "La loi X - La nuit en permanence" includes a performative reading by Lionel Soukaz of his article "La Nuit en permanence", published in the french newspaper Libération, in August 9th, 1979.
26 June 2019
A compilation of scenes that were censored and cut from Lionel Soukaz's 1979 film "Race d'Ep!"
01 December 1975
You can, in fact, trace my life through my films. The first one was called Paris Chausey -- a love story about an island.
27 March 1979
Portrait of French filmmaker Lionel Soukaz shot in Paris (France) on January 13, 1979 at 5:00 PM.
01 January 2002
On the soundtrack (in French) of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the cult horror film featuring a despicable Texan killer, Lionel Soukaz combines images of protests against the war waged by Bush Jr.
01 January 2002
The first three minutes I filmed on the Champs Élysées, at Derek Woolfenden's request, are taken from his film Playdead.
01 December 1968
"I filmed my boyfriend at the time and tried to strip him, but in fact it's a film about ecology." -Soukaz Soukaz's first film, though lost for many years until it was finally recovered.
01 December 2000
Chronicles of a love affair, sunny portraits of a romantic painter, journeys from the countryside to the beaches, bodies and colours dance like a bohemian reverie, back to the news of 11 September 2001.
01 January 1974
Lionel Soukaz opens a wooden panel to discover the sky and comes across Italian workers singing. He longs for them and, when they leave in the evening, finds himself alone, watching television.
01 January 1994
My friend ‘RV’ died on 1 August 1994 at the age of 32. We had known each other for 12 years. I believe that this 28-minute video, started on the morning of his death, is an impulse, the ultimate truth, because it draws from the emotion of life by simply bearing witness to it.
01 January 2001
Film restored by Yves-Marie Mahé from several recordings made during past screenings, notably in the basement of the L’Etna laboratory.
15 November 2025
Portrait of pioneering LGBT filmmaker Lionel Soukaz, who passed away in February 2025. His work lies at the crossroads of several film traditions that rarely intersect: experimental, activist, pornographic, and diary film.
01 January 2013
The “Journal Annales” consists of almost 2.000 hours of video footage collected by filmmaker Lionel Soukaz since 1991.
01 January 2006
"What will remain of us when we've flushed all our accepted masterpieces down the toilet? - Our porn"
01 January 2005
An ode to the life, thought and cinema of Pasolini, brought to life in a video overlay and embodied by two young men.
01 January 2002
I find pornographic magic lantern slides when I get home. I put them in front of my TV and record them.
26 November 1995
A trip to Andalusia, filmed from the window of a bus, hand on his companion’s bulge.