The Many Faces of Frank Ripploh
Film Series|Co-presented with Metrograph
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Metrograph, New York, NY
- Price $18 general admission, $12 seniors/guests with disabilities, $10 members
A gadfly of the 1970s and ’80s West Berlin gay scene who at various times was close to—and occasionally appeared in the films of—major players of the New German Cinema (including Rosa von Praunheim, Monika Treut, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Ulrike Ottinger), Frank Ripploh, occasionally working under the name Peggy von Schnottgenberg, ignited a firestorm of controversy with his sexually explicit, dazzlingly vital 1980 feature debut Taxi zum Klo, a queer cult classic that faced protests and film board ukases wherever it went.
Accompanying Metrograph’s run of the new 4K restoration of Ripploh’s zesty, lusty, glory-holes-and-all signature film are films inspired by Ripploh (Gus van Sant’s Mala Noche; Ira Sachs’s Passages), inspirational to him (von Praunheim’s It Is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives), or featuring his acting talents (Fassbinder’s Querelle and Ottinger’s Madame X: An Absolute Ruler, which “von Schnottgenberg” also co-wrote).
Frank Ripploh, Taxi zum Klo
(West Germany, 1980, 98 min.)
August 2–3
Ira Sachs, Passages
(France, 2023, 92 min.)
August 8–9
Gus van Sant, Mala Noche
(U.S.A., 1988, 78 min.)
August 9–10
Elfi Mikesch, Macumba
(West Germany, 1982, 88 min.)
August 16
Ulrike Ottinger, Madame X: An Absolute Ruler
(West Germany, 1978, 147 min.)
August 17
John Cameron Mitchell, Shortbus
(USA, 2006, 102 min.)
Accompanying Metrograph’s run of the new 4K restoration of Ripploh’s zesty, lusty, glory-holes-and-all signature film are films inspired by Ripploh (Gus van Sant’s Mala Noche; Ira Sachs’s Passages), inspirational to him (von Praunheim’s It Is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives), or featuring his acting talents (Fassbinder’s Querelle and Ottinger’s Madame X: An Absolute Ruler, which “von Schnottgenberg” also co-wrote).
Film Program
August 1–3Frank Ripploh, Taxi zum Klo
(West Germany, 1980, 98 min.)
August 2–3
Ira Sachs, Passages
(France, 2023, 92 min.)
August 8–9
Gus van Sant, Mala Noche
(U.S.A., 1988, 78 min.)
August 9–10
Elfi Mikesch, Macumba
(West Germany, 1982, 88 min.)
August 16
Ulrike Ottinger, Madame X: An Absolute Ruler
(West Germany, 1978, 147 min.)
August 17
John Cameron Mitchell, Shortbus
(USA, 2006, 102 min.)