Movie

Directed by Isabelle Darmengeat

France / 2004 / 26 minutes
French Original Version | English subtitles Available

> Synopsis :

During the Nazi regime, 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality, 15000 were deported, of which 210 were French. After the depenalisation of homosexuality only one of the Frenchmen deported had the courage to make public an extradition that still now isn’t officially recognised.
Alternating a reading of Pierre Seel’s autobiography, Moi Pierre Seel, deporté homosexuel, with conversations with militant gays, Amants des hommes tries to bring to the light a forgotten history, linking the past with the present, yesterday’s with today’s homophobia.

> Screenings : 

Festival LGBT de Dublin - août 2006, festival Queer de Florence - mai 2006, Muestra International de Cine GLBT de Valladolid - mars 2006, Festival Droits de la personne Montréal - mars 2006,...

Director

ISABELLE DARMENGEAT

After a baccalaureate in literature, she attends cinema courses at Poitiers University, obtaining a master's degree for which she writes a dissertation that compares survival horror video games with fantasy films, Dynamics of fear in video games.

In October 2003 she joins the DESS Documentary Production of Poitiers where she learns each of the steps in documentary-making (writing, production, editing, shooting, sound recording,…). During this training she directs a project that has been close to her heart for many years : a documentary about deportation of homosexuals during nazi occupation, Men loverswhich has since been selected for the play-list for many film festivals.

During the same year, she directs a recording, also about homosexual deportation : Stowaways of the memory.

Isabelle Darmengeat has no intention to direct documentaries exclusively, even if it is her favourite medium. It allows her to pursue a cinema in touch with reality. Men lovers and Stowaways of the memory are the kinds of cinema pictures that Isabelle Darmengeat creates : militant cinema that is shocking and controversial.

> Filmography :

- Les clandestins de la mémoire, documentaire sonore, 8 minutes, 2004
- Amants des hommes, vidéo, 26 minutes, 2004
- Moleque de rua, video, 15 minutes, 2004
- Barbizon 10/06, vidéo, 2 minutes 39, 2007
- 100 jours 61%, video, 5 minutes 43, 2007
- L'envol du martinet, video / super8, 10 minutes, 2008

> Web :

www.isabelledarmengeat.fr/

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