LEMEBEL
dir. Joanna Reposi Garibaldi (2020)
96 mins. Spain.
In Spanish with English subtitles.

FRIDAY, JUNE 23 - 7:30 PM with filmmaker Q+A!
(This event is $10.)

“I don’t turn the other cheek. I turn my ass, comrade.” – Pedro Lemebel

Winner of the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival, Joanna Reposi’s documentary about the eponymous LGBTQ+ activist-artist Pedro Lemebel consists of a series of interviews with him as he nears death. Woven into their conversations are recordings from Lemebel’s life, an assemblage of aged media recovered from the sidelines of Pinochet’s dictatorial regime. Grappling with the fragility of media and that of her subject, Reposi produces a filmic body that, like Lemebel, finds itself broken and battered, but incredibly powerful nonetheless.

“Chronicling his upbringing, writings, his place in leftist Chilean politics, and his artistic collaborations with Francisco Casa as part of the politically focused artist collective,  Las Yeguas Del Apocalipsis (The Mares of the Apocalypse), Lemebel offers a portrait of an artist who always yearned for more from life and his country.” –– Anthony Chassi, Hyperallergic