5 Movements on the Subject of Homosexuality and Evidence of its Place in Society (Movement 1)

5 Movements on the Subject of Homosexuality and Evidence of its Place in Society, is a 5 part video work, using as its score, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, who was a homosexual. The decoupage form of the film takes inspiration from this quote found in The Theif's Journal, by Jean Genet. “The beauty of a moral act depends upon the beauty of its Expression. This is the task of images.” The film is a my response to the constant growing attack on homosexuality in the world. It is also a celebration, an heirloom, a gathering of evidence of past lives of all things queer. Taking on the predatory quality of a detective story, the films are a discourse supporting the contention that homosexuality has pervaded the most finite corners of society and culture. Image, sound, word smash and collide creating a place where the present is forced to recall it’s responsibility to the past and propose an un-historical future