Open-air cinema #2 : Kiki, by Sara Jordenö and Twiggy Pucci Garçon

With autumn on the way, the Institut Suédois keeps the summer vibe alive by inviting you into the Hôtel de Marle garden for two open-air screenings. Bring a cushion or blanket if you wish – if not, the grass is yours to sit on! On this second night, we’re putting dance in the spotlight with the documentary KIKI by Sara Jordenö and Twiggy Pucci Garçon.
Man dancing and posing with feathers and glitter

In New York, young people from the Black and Latinx LGBTQI + community gather on the pier of Christopher Street to indulge in an art of their invention, based on the performance of voguing, made famous in the early 1990s by the video clip Vogue by Madonna and by the documentary Paris Is Burning by Jennie Livingston. Twenty-five years later, a new generation of LGBTQI+ youth has taken over and formed an activist artistic subculture: the Kiki scene.

Fruit of the collaboration between the Swedish artist and filmmaker Sara Jordenö and one of the eminent personalities of this scene, activist artist Twiggy Pucci Garçon, the documentary film offers a dive into the heart of the Kiki community and its challenges. It follows for four years the course, the preparations and the performances, during the balls, of seven of its members among which we find Twiggy Pucci Gar çon but also Chi Chi, Gia, Chris, Divo, Symba and Zariya.

The ballroom competitions, places of their spectacular performances, also become the place of expression of their fight against homelessness, disease and prejudice, in resonance with the Black and Trans Lives Matter movements. “Not About Us Without Us” is the motto of this new generation.

The screening of this film is a preamble to the season Mouvements ! 

Original title: KIKI
Director : Sara Jordenö
Written by : Sara Jordenö, Twiggy Pucci Garçon
With Chi Chi Mizrahi, Gia Marie Love, Divo Pink Lady, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, Izana « Zaryia Mizrahi » Vidai, Christopher Waldorf, Kenneth « Symba McQueen » Soler-Rios
Sweden, VOSTFR, 1h35, VOSTFR, all audiences
Trailer for the movie Kiki
More information about the film on the film’s own website

Admission free upon registration, limited seating available.
Entrance from 8:30 p.m. through the garden gates at 10, rue Elzévir.
In case of rain, the screening will be cancelled.
In order to comply with the maximum number of visitors allowed under current health requirements, admission to film screenings will require prior registration and the number of seats will be limited.

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