Join us as we screen this beautiful and rare 35mm print of João Pedro Rodrigues’ debut feature with the Director of Programming at Lincoln Center!
WHAT: Dennis Lim presents O FANTASMA
WHEN: Monday, May 2, 8PM
WHERE: IFC Center - 323 6th Ave at W. 3rd St.
O FANTASMA
2000. Portugal. 87 min. Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues. 35mm!
João Pedro Rodrigues’ dark debut is the twisted tale of a sexy garbageman who spends his time cruising public toilets and stalking straight guys. But when Sergi...
Join us as we screen this beautiful and rare 35mm print of João Pedro Rodrigues’ debut feature with the Director of Programming at Lincoln Center!
WHAT: Dennis Lim presents O FANTASMA
WHEN: Monday, May 2, 8PM
WHERE: IFC Center - 323 6th Ave at W. 3rd St.
O FANTASMA
2000. Portugal. 87 min. Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues. 35mm!
João Pedro Rodrigues’ dark debut is the twisted tale of a sexy garbageman who spends his time cruising public toilets and stalking straight guys. But when Sergio finds a latex bodysuit in the trash, it begins a process of de-volution in which man gradually becomes beast. Rodrigues’ sexually-explicit fever dream is a favorite of our guest presenter, Dennis Lim, Director of Programming at Film Society of Lincoln Center, who calls it “Irma Vep meets Tom of Finland,” adding, “No other contemporary filmmaker engages the complexities and mysteries of desire as fully and forthrightly as Rodrigues. His stunning debut remains his most confrontational work: an anatomy of lust in the form of a trance film.”
Print courtesy of the Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema.
As always, our screening will be followed by drinks and discussion at Julius Bar (159 West 10th St. at Waverly), the oldest gay bar in New York City!
DENNIS LIM
Dennis Lim is the director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The film editor at the Village Voice from 2000-2006, and a regular contributor to The New York Times from 2006-2013, he has also written for The Los Angeles Times, Artforum, and Cinema Scope, among other publications. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard. He is the author of David Lynch: The Man From Another Place published by Amazon/New Harvest in 2015.
DENNIS LIM ON O FANTASMA
“No other contemporary filmmaker engages the complexities and mysteries of desire as fully and forthrightly as Joao Pedro Rodrigues. His films revolve around characters with all-consuming hungers, and their modus operandi is to follow these obsessive desires to their logical (or illogical) ends. Like some kinky superhero of transgression—Irma Vep meets Tom of Finland—the latex-clad garbage-collector hero of O Fantasma prowls Lisbon’s nighttime netherworld, traversing boundaries both psychological and physical. Literal trash cinema, Rodrigues’s stunning debut remains his most confrontational work: an anatomy of lust in the form of a trance film.” - Dennis Lim”
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