¡Homofobia!

What begins as an autobiographical effort from an angry filmmaker unfolds unexpectedly into a cinephile tract by way of heaven itself! ¡Homofobia! is a formally bewildering call for arms from one of Argentina’s most outspoken voices.

Goyo Anchou is among Argentina’s formally most adventurous and politically outspoken filmmakers – no wonder that Javier Milei’s neoliberal death cult got his creative juices racing. ¡Homofobia! starts out as the confession of a tired, depressed and angry filmmaker called Goyo Anchou who made a sex comedy called ¡Homofobia! to counter these dark times.

Soon, a Lubitschian narrative about gender-confusion and marriages in crisis goes haywire, and the image explodes, as Anchou turns the screen into a collage with several often overlapping images, including an early silent depiction of the life of Christ. Once Jesus has ascended to heaven and the credits have rolled by, Anchou returns to the soundtrack, talking about how the light in the venue should be, as he has a few things to get off his chest… What happens next is a cine-political manifesto for a different kind of film, and a different kind of life. ¡Homofobia! is as much an example for cinema as autobiography as for filmmaking as a way to theorise and philosophise. Wild, brainy stuff!

– Olaf Möller

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