Screening of the Mexican SALOME + Intro by Lola Lemke
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Cinema Mentiré presents Salome, Salome, Salome bringing together three radically different queer incarnations of the biblical princess across Brazil, Mexico and the UK, with intros by TGirlsOnFilm, Loose Willis and Lola Lemke.
The closing night of Salome, Salome, Salome brings the dreamlike Salome of textures, sensations and veils by Paris-based Mexican artist Teo Hernández, filmed in Super8.
SALOME
Dir. Teo Hernández, 1976, Mexico / France, 65min.
📆 Sunday, 5th July, at 6.00pm
🎤 Intro by Lola Lemke, a writer and researcher from Mexico
🎟️ Book here
In his first feature film, Teo Hernández takes on the gospel story of Salome with a high camp aesthetic, midway between Mexican iconography and gay glitter. Largely shot in the filmmaker’s apartment, the film suspends veils, pearls, bodies, and sparkling objects in a black, depthless field where gesture becomes pure emanation. Colour, light, and variations of projection speed replace dramaturgy; bodies drift, wrap, veil, unveil, and dissolve, as boleros pulse against the image rather than comment on it. Desire presides over a world poised between ascetic severity and baroque excess.
Check it out also the UK premiere of the unashamed sci-fi melodrama rom-com Salome from Brazil, which opens the season at The Garden on 3 July + Ken Russel’s Salome’s Last Dance on 4 July at the Rio.