It started with a closet door ajar long before the now well-known and accepted the letter combination lgbtq, and today’s certainties about the right of all peoples to their love and sexual desire.
Ingrid Ryberg collects in his documentary films, fragments and documents from the time when more and more brave ended up ashamed of their love for people of the same sex.
hassle-free depiction. A few pioneers have their say and recall their memories with laughter and comments. Just how big the resistance was, we can only imagine, before the black time when hiv / aids threatened to once again slam the back door. If we know enough, seems to Ingrid Ryberg have resonated. On the other hand, a little bit about some of the key efforts to reach the current acceptance.
in 1977, became something of a landmark year in the field. The first so-called frigörelsedemonstrationerna organized. In this beginning, with the participants in paper bags over the head in order not to be identified.
To the images, the joints Ingrid Ryberg quotes from the film ”Bögjävlar” with the exact varudeklarerande the subtitle ”a film by and about the radical homosexuals”. Suddenly became a group of homosexuals fully visible as people, not just as the grotesquely enlarged and vulgar coloured operation profiles, in Vilgot Sjöman’s film ”Taboo” from the same year.
decadent cut out of the ”Taboo” Ingrid Ryberg effective a scene from ”Bögdjävlar”: two men together in a bathtub, then an extremely controversial, today a fully possible kärleksscen for a couple of sammanlevande. Some inspired contemporary comments from the bathers, the pair complement tidsbilden.
In Gothenburg did filmkollektivet chick flick a few years later, ”Eve and Mary”, with the support of the national Board of health, as part of a campaign against the increasing number of abortions. Support for a tender and open depiction of love between two loving women surprised also upphovsgruppen, evidenced by the modern-day reunion. Ingrid Ryberg will return also to another pioneering film in context, ”the Woman in your life is you”.
”Eve and Mary” has been a kind of revival for the purposes of disclosure is shown there.. So should also be ”An army of lovers” make excellent benefit.
But sometimes obscured Ingrid Rybergs tribute to his handful of pioneers of an excessively förnumstig voiceover, and of an imperfect, willingness to sign a broader background in the general social climate.
a heart of stone if you don’t get a tear in the eye of the slutbilderna from today’s Pride parade with all the massive array of colour, pride and joy.
See more. Three other documentaries with lgbtq-theme: ”Live, love” (2018), short film ”the Promise” (2017, svtplay),” Regnbågshjältar” that unfolds in the world of sports (2018, svtplay).
