Artists Space

Summer Special
Tom of Finland Film Evening

Screenings
August 28, 2015, 7pm

In conjunction with the recently extended Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play (now on view through September 13), Artists Space present an evening of back-to-back gay classics.

"Gays don't want to be gay, but be as bourgeois and kitschy as the average citizen."

– Rosa von Praunheim, It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, 1971

A man sits partially undressed on a toilet, holding a red notebook while peering through a hole in the tile wall.
Frank Ripploh, still from Taxi zum Klo, 1981. 95min. [A man sits partially undressed on a toilet, holding a red notebook while peering through a hole in the tile wall.]

It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
Rosa von Praunheim
1971
67min

Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the Toilet)
Frank Ripploh
1981
95 min

Tongues Untied
Marlon Riggs
1989
55 min

No Skin Off My Ass
Bruce LaBruce
1993
73 min

Un chant d'amour (A Song of Love), 1950
Jean Genet, 25 min

With music video interludes.