Jean Genet In Chicago
2006 | 00:26:00 | Canada / United States | English / French | B&W and Color | Stereo
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Activism, Chicago Art, Crime or Violence, History, LGBT, Literature, Performance, Politics
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A queer rewriting of the events surrounding the 1968 National Democratic Convention in Chicago from the point of view of French writer Jean Genet. Along the way Genet will meet, amongst others, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, the Yippies, the Black Panther Party and the Chicago police force... Ultimately, the video is about the difficulty of aligning political and sexual desires.
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