Queer Strategies and Tentacles: Theater of Life
Le Coccinelle — sceneggiata transessuale
Emanuela Pirelli
2011
52 Minutes
Date
January 6-19, 2025
Co-produced with B&B Film.
They’re not drag queens, they don’t aspire to be perfectly-groomed ‘femmes fatales’, nor do they act out scenes from pop icon shows. Gennaro, Tonino, Genny and Giacinto, four Neapolitan ‘ladies’, four transsexuals from the back streets of Naples. In restaurant dining rooms decked out in fake Baroque style, Le Coccinelle sing and perform their acts. They tell their stories of prostitution, the judgement by Naples’s upper class, the hypocrisy of their clients; but they also recount their friendships with the women of the back streets and the Neapolitans’ joyous way of life. Before an audience of guests at a wedding banquet, this exhilarating mix of sacred and profane, of ancient and modern, of conventional and queer, is played out.
This screening is part of Theater of Life, the fifth chapter of the film program Queer Strategies and Tentacles, curated by Rosa Barotsi and Zairong Xiang, and unfolding in eight chapters between November 25th, 2024 and March 2, 2025, with the films of each chapter streaming for two weeks.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
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