The work is based on a travel diary written in the summer of 1977 by four young homosexual men from the Gothenburg area during their stay at an international liberation camp in the south of France. These Swedish men belong to the Gothenburg-based socialist association Röda Bögar (Red Faggots) and, like others who attended the camp, they were active in the struggle for the freedom and rights of homosexuals. In spite of the camp’s shared goals, however, there were some big differences. These small-town Swedish gays’ tentative longing for the more worldly continental men and their insecurity around them permeate their journals. So do their femininity and their ability to use female-coded expressions as playful weapons against the patriarchy. In the film we hear a young generation of activists give expression to these journal entries, which depict several intense weeks of both joyful and anxious encounters in the heat of the south French summer. In this way, the work becomes a place for meeting across generational boundaries, where the experiences and desires of different eras, memories of the past and fantasies for the future, are woven together.
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Koncert Në Vitin 2014
Conny Karlsson Lundgren
2014, 00:06:00