Tom of Finland
a queer-feminist film series in Luxembourg
- Âge
- 16+
- Langue
- Finnish, English, German | French subtitles
dir. Dome Karukoski | 2017 | fiction | Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, USA
Lieu: Plateforme
entrée libre
FR Touko Laaksonen, officier héroïque de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, est de retour en Finlande. Mais la vie à Helsinki n’est pas de tout repos. La persécution contre les homosexuels est insidieuse, les contraignant le plus souvent à se marier et avoir des enfants. Touko trouve alors refuge dans l’art, dessinant dans le plus grand secret des hommes musclés, désinhibés et fiers d’être gays.
EN Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual men around him, even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specializing in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work − made famous by his signature “Tom of Finland” − became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
org.: queer loox a.s.b.l., en collaboration avec les Rotondes
queer loox
FR Le terme «queer» signifie «étrange», «peu commun», «bizarre», en opposition à la «norme» que serait l’hétérosexualité. Les projections de queer loox alternent entre la présentation de longs métrages, de documentaires et d’installations artistiques, dans le but d’offrir une véritable plateforme propice aux rencontres, aux discussions.
EN queer loox is a queer-feminist film series that started in December 2014. Queer means a crossing of traditional identity categories and implies a critical engagement with the division between the "normal" and the social "illegitimate". The series presents every other month a wide range of feature films and documentaries. queer loox understands itself as a queer-feminist platform in Luxembourg, a meeting point for discussion.
