Frameline50: Objectionable Content: Banned Retro Shorts

Featuring Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures, Jean Genet’s Un chant d’amour, and a rarely seen classic from recent Frameline guest Todd Haynes, this is a must-see lineup for queer cinephiles.

Short films showing in this program:

Flaming Creatures:

Banned in 22 states and four countries, this landmark work of the American avant-garde by Jack Smith is a hedonistic tableaux of Hollywood iconography, gender subversion and expansion, classic melodrama, and torrid sexuality. Courtesy of Canyon Cinema.

Un chant d’amour:

Banned in its native France and heavily censored around the world, the only film directed by novelist Jean Genet is a masterpiece in poetic homoerotic longing. Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication. Courtesy of Cult Epics.