Jean Genet in Chicago

- Media type
- Film
Jean Genet in Chicago · Jean Genet in Chicago · MOVIE
2006
About this title
A queer rewriting of the events surrounding the 1968 National Democratic Convention from the point of view of the controversial French writer. This “thief-video” combines disparate textual sources, contemporary reenactments of historical events and archival footage in order to relate the uneasy fusion of the French poet’s criminalized sexuality with late 60s American counter-culture.