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Sissy-Boy-Slap-Party

dir. Guy Maddin / Canada 1996 / 2’

subtitles: Polish and English

retrospective: Guy Maddin A Trip to the Orphanage, Archangel, Berlin, Brand Upon the Brain!, Careful, Collage Party, Cowards Bend the Knee, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, Footsteps, Glorious, Hospital Fragments, It's a Wonderful Life, It’s My Mother’s Birthday Today, My Dad Is 100 Years Old, My Winnipeg, Nude Caboose, Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Baloon Mounts Towards Infinity, Odin's Shield Maiden, Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair, Sissy-Boy-Slap-Party, Sombra dolorosa, Spanky: To the Pier and Back, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, The Dead Father, The Heart of the World, The Saddest Music in the World, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Workbooks Section index

Cast

Noam Gonick, Caelum Vatnsdal, Simon Hughes, Micheal Powell, John K. Samson, Leith Clark

Film description

Guy Maddin likes subtle and funny euphemisms, as shown in Sissy-Boy-Slap-Party - a dynamic short film, edited in the rhythm of hands slapping cheeks and drums playing. When left alone, some young men start a slapping orgy, which reflects homosexual tensions between them. The film's charm and humour are typical for Maddin. Sissy-Boy-Slap-Party aesthetics was inspired by The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein. (ar)