Un Chant D'Amour (1950) | 26 mins | 16mm
"To whom, if not you, to talk about you in order to establish—all the way to mutual downfall, echoes always more muted—a useless dialogue… We hate each other, within ourselves and within each of us. We destroy each other. Our relationship broken, inversion is lived solitarily." - Jean Genet, Fragments of the Artwork
For this first screening of the Spring semester, we offer you a maudit love letter: the only film by controversial queer French novelist, playwright, and essayist, Jean Genet. The arms of two lovers, extending from barred windows, attempt to pass flowers from one to the other: imprisoned side by side, they express their longing for one another while observed by a voyeuristic guard.
14 February 2012, 4:30-5:30 pm
@ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MacLean Center, 112 S. Michigan Ave.,
Room 1307. Free and open to the public.
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