A Song of Love - A night devoted to Jean Genet
Ahoy Sailors!
We will celebrating all things Genet with an evening of sailors, live music, film and performance.
Live music throughout the evening from Keziah Hodgson, Medusa Has Been and Frankie Heartless plus you can watch Un Chant D'amour and have an ice cream!
A Song of Love is French writer Jean Genet's only film, which he directed in 1950. Because of its explicit (though artistically presented) homosexual content, the 26-minute movie was long banned. Jean Genet’s unbelievably erotic film, set in a prison, has one of the all-time top homoerotic moments in cinema when the two inmates share a cigarette through a small hole by blowing the smoke into the mouth of the other. A stunning exploration of sex, power & violence.
It has been cited as an influence for many gay filmmakers, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Derek Jarman, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey as well as fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier.
Sometimes, the fashion legacy of a famous figure owes itself not to the way they dressed but the sartorial influence of their life’s work. French avant-garde writer Jean Genet's inversion of the moral and literary zeitgeist gave way to an enduring romanticism with French vagrancy and a tawdry underworld that continues to inspire artists, musicians and fashion designers to this day. Emblematic of Genet’s erotically-charged vision is the Breton-striped sailor from his novel Querelle de Brest.
“My Grandmother used to dress me in Breton tops, so when I think of navy stripes I feel a nostalgia for that era when I was growing up. And then of course, there is Jean Genet and Querelle de Brest and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film of that novel. At the beginning of the 1980s, I started wearing the Breton stripe top again. I wore them everywhere, even with a tuxedo for gala evenings. I paired them with everything – jeans, even a kilt” – Jean Paul Gaultier
You might find a few sailors propping up the Triangle bar in fact!