“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made to be projected on four screens at once, X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the four ends of the cross, War, Sex, Religion and Drugs, the double exposures, the colliding glimpses the eye barely recognizes, the skilful repetitions of themes, remind us that Sex is also the war of bodies, and the pope, the Drug of the people. And the story of this young man, shooting up in order to experience all the horror of the world in front of his TV set, reminds us that the heroin orgy is indeed the subjective locus of the monsters of the modern unconscious.” - Guy Hocquenghem
Direction
Lionel Soukaz weaponizes the four-screen format.
Editing
Double exposures that assault your peripheral vision.
Sound
That scream of a title, embedded in the mix.
Director
Lionel Soukaz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1980s Parisian queer underground cinema, screened illegally in squats and galleries.
Guy Hocquenghem, theorist and co-writer, was a founding voice of French gay liberation—this was his cinematic suicide note.
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