Milos Stehlik on Gay them as taboo Rsian cema | WBEZ Chigo

Contents:

• GREENAWAY OFFENDS RSIA WH FILM ABOUT SOVIET DIRECTOR'S GAY LOVE AFFAIR
• FILM CLAIMG DIRECTOR SERGEI EISENSTE HAD GAY LOVE AFFAIR SHUNNED RSIA
• FILM REVIEW; MEET EISENSTE: PUNKER, MISF AND GAY RENEGA
• BELOVED RSIAN FILMMAKER REST AS LOVE-STCK GAY BOTTOM
• CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE
• SERGEI/SIR GAY
• MILOS STEHLIK ON GAY THEM AS TABOO RSIAN CEMA
• PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA
• FILM SCREENG OF VOLGA-VOLGA (2006) & SIR GAY (2017)

GREENAWAY OFFENDS RSIA WH FILM ABOUT SOVIET DIRECTOR'S GAY LOVE AFFAIR

So ’s no surprise that Rsia – s crackdown on ee exprsn and s reprsive stance on homosexualy – has been touchy about Peter Greenaway’s pictn of the figure his new feature Eisenste Guanajuato, which premiered at the Berl Internatnal Film Ftival last Brish tr director displays his typilly transgrsive irreverence pictg the natnal hero’s 10-day love affair wh a male gui Mexi, offendg a Rsia that prevly celebrated him for cimatg palist vulgary his 1989 masterpiece The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her the ftival, Greenaway was cheerful, unapologetic form.

FILM CLAIMG DIRECTOR SERGEI EISENSTE HAD GAY LOVE AFFAIR SHUNNED RSIA

“Put has enuraged this homophobia, ” Greenaway said. “I have lots of iends St Petersburg and Mosw and they don’t feel [homophobic] at all.

FILM REVIEW; MEET EISENSTE: PUNKER, MISF AND GAY RENEGA

“When they retrospectively learned that we’d picted a homosexual relatnship the first one they got sred, ” he said. The director argu that any pictn of a historil figure is a subjective terpretatn, and that Eisenste’s stggl wh his sexualy are well suggts the director’s marriage to his secretary Pera Atasheva was strictly one of nvenience: “There was a new Stal law which crimalised homosexualy, and there is a lot of evince that he was very sceptible, and anx about his sexualy. ”Film historians have often poted out that homosexual imagery is rife Eisenste’s films.

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BELOVED RSIAN FILMMAKER REST AS LOVE-STCK GAY BOTTOM

) In a surreal pl, Greenaway animat Eisenste personal notebook of Pisso-like om Eisenste GuanajuatoEisenste's eccentricy beme the butt of smart-ass parody Ghostbters II (actor Peter McNichols' mad-geni wh a red Ao), but tellectual Greenaway don't nscend to mastream anti-tellectualism or unnsc homophobia. The revealg, adult timacy here mak this a breakthrough film-- b sexual and emotnal ankns Sergei and Canejo's terurse ("I have reached my acctomed pot and this is where I stop") that surpass most gay-intifyg, polilly rrect moviemakers.

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CELEBRATG THE GAY RSIAN CELEBRI HISTORY BOOKS TRIED TO ERASE

Get our ee weekly email for all the latt cematic news om our film cric Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cematic email for eeThe legendary film director Sergei Eisenste is nsired one of the proust figur Rsia’s cultural history, but whether a new movie about his life – and an alleged gay love affair particular – will ever be screened his home untry is grave doubt. Femke Woltg, the producer of Eisenste Guanajuato, nfirmed that Rsian distributors and producers refed to back the film bee of s open pictn of the director’s homosexualy. We tried to get Rsian distributors aboard and a Rsian producer possibly to accs fance om Rsia but all were impossible bee of the fact that film showed that Eisenste was gay.

Eisenste's 1925 'Battlhip Potemk' is perhaps his most revered film“In Rsia, there is a very, very aggrsive attu toward gay people which is a disgrace.

“On the other si, I don’t re if Eisenste was gay.

SERGEI/SIR GAY

“To the image of Eisenste, this [Eisenste’s homosexualy] don’t add anythg. The A-list opposg Rsia's anti-gay lawsShow all 15Others disagree, potg to homoerotic drawgs and patgs that Eisenste ma and makg the argument that Eisenste’s work changed dramatilly tone after his experienc Mexi.

Homosexually cled (although married), he f the prototype of the artist as social misf and pulsive dazzlgly played by the Brish actor Simon McBurney the film, he bears remblanc to everyone om the punk rocker Johnny Rotten to the ntemporary director Peter Sellars.

''Eisenste'' imag a gay relatnship between Eisenste and his protégé that tak a nasty turn when Grisha be Eisenste's unofficial we first meet the director, is 1921, and Mosw is giddy wh revolutnary fervor. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn E, Page 5 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: FILM REVIEW; Meet Eisenste: Punker, Misf and Gay Renega.

MILOS STEHLIK ON GAY THEM AS TABOO RSIAN CEMA

Unr Rsia’s aggreive “gay propaganda law”, queer culture is effectively barred om both the mastream media and public spac.

PUT’S PRI? SIX FAMO GAY SONS OF RSIA

Now Instagram project Izvtnye Tetki is reclaimg Rsia’s male gay history all s glory. The acunt’s founr, 25-year-old Nika Andriyanov, had always felt that Rsia’s history had been stolen om the gay muny. “The state propaganda mache nstantly channels the ia that homosexualy ‘don’t belong to our untry and tradns’ or that ‘gays me om the US after the llapase of the USSR’.

“We had to perfect our English to get accs to books about gay love, stead of beg able to turn to Rsian lerature, such as Wgs by Mikhail Kuzm.

I wanted to reclaim history om the state and give back to gay people, lbians and queers. By the end of the 19th century, started to appear the prs when referrg to homosexuals general. Especially for The Calvert Journal, Andriyanov has picked 10 proment figur of Rsia’s gay history: perfect for anyone embarkg on their own journey queer tn for Pri Month 2020.

FILM SCREENG OF VOLGA-VOLGA (2006) & SIR GAY (2017)

Morn historians also state that 1887, Grand De Sergei opened a private club for gay men St Petersburg, which existed for four years before the Grand Prce had to leave the cy for his new posn Mosw. His mic has glorified Rsia forever, but Rsia failed to glorify his te self as a gay man.