Now that the Grand Illusion Cinema is closed until their new location is ready, SECS Fest had to seek out a new venue. The Beacon, in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood has given us a warm welcome and is partnering with us to bring THE VISITOR from gay provocateur Bruce LaBruce.
The Visitor is based on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film TEOREMA. And like the Pasolini film, a stranger arrives and seduces each member of the family that he stays with, leaving them forever changed.
And this Visitor is played by SECS Fest favorite Bishop Black.
THE VISITOR
dir. Bruce LaBruce
101 minutes
- Saturday, March 22 – 7 pm
- Wednesday, March 26 – 4:30 pm
“The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer’s way of life.” – Pier Paolo Pasolini
“If you are going to make a film about sexual revolution, it’s best to put your Marxism where your mouth is and make the movie sexually explicit, or even better, pornographic, prioritising praxis over theory.” – Bruce LaBruce
THE VISITOR is a British-set reimagining of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film TEOREMA. Pasolini’s enigmatic protagonist, known to everyone as “the visitor”, arrives at the house of an upper-class family and seduces each family member one after the other. When he suddenly departs, he leaves behind an emptiness for which the rest attempt to compensate in different ways. In Bruce LaBruce’s THE VISITOR, it is a refugee who washes up in a small suitcase on the banks of the River Thames in London. He is one of several identical-looking men who simultaneously emerge from suitcases in other locations around the city. Dressed in the guise of a homeless man, he arrives at the house of an upper-class family and gets to know the maid. When she passes him off as her nephew, the family invites him to also work for them as a live-in servant. The guest makes love with each of the residents of the house one after the other, depicted in explicit sex scenes. Each member of the household experiences a radical sexual and spiritual transformation.
