Vogel 22: Birth, Death, and Homosexuality

The End of Sexual Taboos: Homosexuality and Other Variants “Sexual permissiveness – certainly destructive of established mores – has been an aspect of the ideology of the avant-garde from its inception. For this movement is forever at war with society and its values.” He calls necrophilia “one of the unconquered areas of liberated cinema.” – The Bloodthirsty Fairy (1968, Roland Lethem) Delivery men unleash the title character, who goes out and beats a man to death, strangles a nun, blinds a boy. She’s collecting severed penises in jars, and they’ve got a metaphorical way of showing her chop a guy’s dick off, which unfortunately involved killing a chicken. I’m not wowed by the church organ soundtrack, and why the nazi credits? Vogel just says “The swastika that opened the film changes into Nixon,” while Lightcone points out nazi stuff in his other films. – Fragment of Seeking (1946, Curtis Harrington) Wow, I was not expecting that. Overdressed Guy creeps around to dramatic music,…