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The Films of Rosa von Praunheim

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This four-day retrospective spotlighting Rosa von Praunheim, a stalwart figure in gay cinema, peaks with a red-letter performance of his life, I'm a Tomato — a fitting title, given how much catch-up there is (ha-cha!). For 40 years now, the full-tilt activist ("Rosa" stands for the pink that branded concentration-camp homosexuals, "Praunheim" for a Frankfurt district) has been a provocative, prolific chronicler of AIDS, transsexuals, cannibals, and his repressed brethren. Beside the seminal call-out of gay Uncle Toms, It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, the enlightened program also shines on America's gay-liberation movement and women under duress, such as transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who endured Nazis, neo-Nazis, and everything in between.

- Jason Jude Chan
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    I saw Army of Lovers last night (his documentary about the GLBT movement from the '50s-mid 70's in the US). Truly amazing.

    By Timothy W. on 06/06/2009 at 11:10 am
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