It's election night, feeling naughty? Then come join TAPE for an erotic night of experimental cinema! To kick off a month's long installation of Julie Orlick's The One Person Cinema, the program will feature parts one and two of the gay, French archival S&M film Les fantômes du hard in the microcinema. Blending shot-on-video smut with diaristic reflection, Lazare Lazarus unearths gay porn archives from Marseilles' legendary BDSM bar Le Mineshaft. Activating the archives of its founder, Lazare unearths a complex history of hardcore gay sex and the ghosts its left behind.

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PLUS, don't miss your chance to see Orlick's erotic short DÉSIR, looping in The One Person Cinema. The installation explores a long distance relationship with taboo BDSM dynamics, voyeurism, performance, vulnerability, and projection (literally and figuratively). The work incorporates elements of 16mm experimental film, theater, sculpture, and public space for someone to be alone in, forcing one to view the film with no disturbances. While in the space, the audience member can be viewed from the outside while also being in a secret fantasy world. The One Person Cinema is a small 5’ x 3’ x 6’ room purposely built to premiere DÉSIR, equipped with headphones, a theater chair, carpet, and a viewing hole from the outside with a two-way mirror.

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Huge thanks to Graham Akins, the lab technician in the UCLA sculpture department, for all of his help and generosity.

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Looping film inside for *ONE NIGHT ONLY* Come early, or stay late ;)

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18+ Adults only. ID checked at the door.

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DÉSIR

Paris/Los Angeles / Black and White 16mm to digital / 2023 - 2026 / 3min 36sec

Starring Shelbie Dimond, Rose Minham and A. Nonynous Dick.

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Les fantômes du hard Chapter 1

Lazare Lazarus | 2023 | France | 35’ | Digital | French spoken, English subtitles

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Les fantômes du hard Chapter 2

Lazare Lazarus | 2024 | France | 24’ | Digital | French spoken, English subtitles

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TUESDAY, 11/3
7:30 DOORS
8:00 SCREENING

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$10 general admission.

Basic & Microcinephile members, please log-in to your account at checkout for your discounts to apply. Don't have a membership? Get one here.

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Presented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.

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