AD HOC #69 - Genet/Anger: Love Songs

When and Where

Saturday, February 15, 2025 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Deluxe Screening Room, IN-222E
Innis College
2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

Description

Free and open to the public

For this post-Valentines screening, Ad Hoc presents two essential, controversial, once-banned works of Queer avant-garde cinema: Jean Genet’s Un chant d’amour, a film of lust, tenderness, love and consummation breaching the harsh atmosphere of a prison kept by a sadistic jailor; and Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising, the American Bandstand of experimental films in which Top 40 songs of a then-recent past form a Greek chorus to the strangling rebellion of youth.

Program:

  • Un chant d'amour (1950, 26 minutes)
  • Scorpio Rising (1963, 29 minutes)

TRT: ~55 minutes

AD HOC aims to rethink what an experience of cinema can be. We seek to reposition historical landmarks and buried treasures within the on-going tradition of experimental and other non- commercial modes of filmmaking, drawing on work from Toronto, throughout Canada, and internationally. Within these parameters, we aspire to diversity in programming, as well as to multimedia and interdisciplinary screening events that bring together varied communities.

AD HOC = Stephen Broomer, Madi Piller, Jim Shedden, Bart Testa.

AD HOC would like to thank Alberto Zambenedetti, Denise Ing, Charlie Keil, Eyan Logan, Thom Chan, Jarret Sorger, and the staff of Innis College and the Cinema Studies Institute.

Contact Information

Sponsors

Cinema Studies Institute

Map

2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5

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