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7:00 PM
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Situation in Which He Lives
Film Screening and Talk|After the Screening: Talk with Jan Künemund and Tetsuya Shibutani
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Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Hall, Tokyo
- Language Film: German with Japanese subtitles, Lecture & Talk: German and Japanese with consecutive interpretation
- Price 1000 Yen (including the lecture staring from 18:00)
- Part of series: Rosa von Praunheim - Pioneer of Queer Cinema in Germany
West Germany, 1971, 67 min., FSK 16, German with Japanese subtitles
Daniel and Clemens fall in love, move in together, and attempt to imitate the conventions of a bourgeois marriage. When their relationship ends after four months, Daniel becomes increasingly immersed into Berlin’s gay subculture. He takes a job at a gay café and frequents parks and public meeting places popular with gay men. Eventually, he meets Paul in a transvestite bar, who introduces him to a gay communal household where alternative models of gay life and identity are openly discussed.
Praunheim’s scathing critique of the self-imposed invisibility of gay people in public life is one of the rare examples of a film that had a direct socio-political impact. Following its first screenings, more than fifty activist groups were founded, laying the groundwork for the modern German gay rights movement.
Originally filmed without sound and later supplemented with an ironic voice-over commentary, the film blends fiction and documentary footage, manifesto and essay, culminating in a direct appeal for collective self-organization. Its experimental and open-ended form is as provocative and challenging as its wide-ranging critique.
Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Cast: Bernd Feuerhelm, Beryt Bohlen, Ernst Kuchling, and others
Jan Künemund works as a freelance cultural journalist and heads the press and public relations department of the Schwules Museum in Berlin. He writes about film for various media outlets, serves on the selection committee of the DOK Leipzig Film Festival, and teaches at institutions including the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). Most recently, he co-edited the book Queer Cinema Now! (Berlin, 2023).
Tetsuya Shibutani
Born in 1965, he is a Professor in the College of Humanities and Sciences at Nihon University. His research specializes in German cinema and cultures of visual representation. He has published extensively on German film, with a particular focus on the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has also translated Fassbinder’s plays "The Bremen Freedom" and "Garbage, the City and Death" into Japanese, and has created Japanese subtitles for a large number of German films.
Daniel and Clemens fall in love, move in together, and attempt to imitate the conventions of a bourgeois marriage. When their relationship ends after four months, Daniel becomes increasingly immersed into Berlin’s gay subculture. He takes a job at a gay café and frequents parks and public meeting places popular with gay men. Eventually, he meets Paul in a transvestite bar, who introduces him to a gay communal household where alternative models of gay life and identity are openly discussed.
Praunheim’s scathing critique of the self-imposed invisibility of gay people in public life is one of the rare examples of a film that had a direct socio-political impact. Following its first screenings, more than fifty activist groups were founded, laying the groundwork for the modern German gay rights movement.
Originally filmed without sound and later supplemented with an ironic voice-over commentary, the film blends fiction and documentary footage, manifesto and essay, culminating in a direct appeal for collective self-organization. Its experimental and open-ended form is as provocative and challenging as its wide-ranging critique.
Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Cast: Bernd Feuerhelm, Beryt Bohlen, Ernst Kuchling, and others
After the Screening Talk with Jan Künemund and Tetsuya Shibutani
Jan Künemund (Online-Participation)Jan Künemund works as a freelance cultural journalist and heads the press and public relations department of the Schwules Museum in Berlin. He writes about film for various media outlets, serves on the selection committee of the DOK Leipzig Film Festival, and teaches at institutions including the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). Most recently, he co-edited the book Queer Cinema Now! (Berlin, 2023).
Tetsuya Shibutani
Born in 1965, he is a Professor in the College of Humanities and Sciences at Nihon University. His research specializes in German cinema and cultures of visual representation. He has published extensively on German film, with a particular focus on the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has also translated Fassbinder’s plays "The Bremen Freedom" and "Garbage, the City and Death" into Japanese, and has created Japanese subtitles for a large number of German films.
Location
Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Hall
7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Tokyo
107-0052 Japan
7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Tokyo
107-0052 Japan