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Sissy-Boy Slap-PartyAnd no, I'm not whining again about Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest's schoolyard behavior... Canadian art-house fave Guy Maddin (you might know him from the wonderfully retro Careful, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, or Twlight of the Ice Nymphs) made the minutes-long Sissy-Boy Slap-Party in 1995 and it recently showed up on the DVD extras for his film The Saddest Music in the World. The bizarre short parades out an assortment of gay stereotypes from cinema's days past, and then has them engage in a frenzied sissy slap-off that emphasizes the inherent homoeroticism of male-male violence. Think Fight Club meets Glee Club. There's really very little more that I can say about it other than that it's pretty much the most insane four minutes of cinema I've probably ever seen. I'm posting a rather crappy YouTube version below so that you can see what it's all about, but I strongly recommend that you head over to iFilm to watch it in its high-res, slap-happy glory.
So what do you think? Hilarious? Offensive? Brilliant? Stupid? Submitted by on Fri, 2007-03-30 13:09. |
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...what?
WTF?It was weird... not in a
It was weird... not in a good way.
Sissy boy
...yeah
I love Maddin's films
He's one of the gayest straight directors I know.
I love the retro atmosphere of his films, he's somewhere between David Lynch and Murnau.
As for this short film, I found it very funny and erotic. I'd say Jean Genet meets Pierre & Gilles.
François
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I love Maddin's films
Double post. Sorry.
Guy Maddin
"somewhere between David Lynch and Murnau"
You nailed it, and he's like that in person, too (well, except for the Murnau part). My buddy and I attended a lecture he gave recently up here at the Perimeter Institute. He showed some pretty batshit clips that the audience didn't quite know what to make of...
Then he got into some of his more linear work, and really blew us away with "Heart of the World". Very powerful and unabashadly expressionistic.
But his wry sense of humor and off-kilter obsession with personal nostalgia had us in stitches. He definitely has a Lynchian stage presence. With a bit of John Waters thrown in.
He credits his Scandinavian roots and exotic (for a prairie boy) upbringing for his unique artistic philosophy.