Lionel Soukaz Movies

Lionel Soukaz followed Tom de Pékin in Paris, filming a succession of quick portraits of the graphic designer's entourage in a playful rhythm....

Othello Vilgard, Xavier Baert and Lionel Soukaz filmed a performance by Tom from Beijing: one strips himself naked while the others veil and reveal...

“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made...

Reel 5 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

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...

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...

The “Journal Annales” consists of almost 2.000 hours of video footage collected by filmmaker Lionel Soukaz since 1991. For...

"Race d’Ep!" (which literally translates to "Breed of Faggots") was made by the “father of queer theory,” Guy Hocquenghem, in...

A contemporary scenario, in which American journalist Doug Ireland visits Europe and meets an oppressed young Arab man, is played against the...

A compilation of scenes that were censored and cut from Lionel Soukaz's 1979 film "Race d'Ep!"

Film restored by Yves-Marie Mahé from several recordings made during past screenings, notably in the basement of the L’Etna laboratory....

A film by Lionel Soukaz

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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A fantasia on the inner lives of gay teenagers in '70s France.

You can, in fact, trace my life through my films. The first one was called Paris Chausey -- a love story about an island. I was desperate to find a...

Situated in the vein of Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Dostoievski and Benjamin and of free jazz and punk, this film bears witness to the iniquitous...

A trip to Andalusia, filmed from the window of a bus, hand on his companion’s bulge.

Portrait of pioneering LGBT filmmaker Lionel Soukaz, who passed away in February 2025. His work lies at the crossroads of several film traditions...

In 1991, Lionel Soukaz initiated his Journal annales, filming his "community of fags, poor people, and drug addicts" confronted with the AIDS...