Lemebel

SYNOPSIS

An intimate and political portrait of Pedro Lemebel, writer, visual artist, performer and pioneer of the Queer movement in Latin America. With their edgy texts and provocative performances, Lemebel shook up their conservative Chilean society during the Pinochet dictatorship in the 1980s. Body, blood and fire featured in their works, which they attempted to perpetuate during the last eight years of their life in a movie that they never managed to finish. Joanna Reposi Garibaldi's documentary celebrates their courageous life and precious legacy.

Direction

Joanna Reposi Garibaldi

Running Time

96’

Nationality

Cina, Colombia

Year

2019

Award

Honorable Mention Divergenti 2022

REGIA

Joanna Reposi Garibaldi

PREMIO

Honorable Mention Divergenti 2022

NAZIONALITà

Cina, Colombia

DURATA

96’

ANNO

2019

jury comment

"With a Honoreble Mention we honor Joanna Reposi Garibaldi's "Lemebel" movie dedicated to one of the artists to whom we most owe the revolutionary force in performance as a political and queer act, that was born and expressed themselves in the desert of the Chilean dictatorship, through the slaughters of women and students and the violence against LGBT. The director skillfully brings together archival images of the artist/writer/activist with the present of the movie, in which memories and illness dominate. "Lemebel" is embodied example of how one can oppose the brutality of history by generating new worlds and imaginaries."

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