Exhibition sheds new light on a key figure in French literature and queer culture at the turn of the millennium
Guillaume Dustan, Songs in the key of moi, 2000. DV video. View of Fri Art Kunsthalle, 2021. Photo: Guillaume Python.
FRIBOURG
.- Writer, editor, magistrate, artist and public figure, Guillaume Dustan (19652005, Paris) made 19 films between 2000 and 2004 using a DV camera. These films make up a part of his oeuvre that is little-known to date. The exhibition in Fri Art Kunsthalle sheds new light on a key figure in French literature and queer culture at the turn of the millennium.
In his final book, published in 2005 (Premier essai, Flammarion), Dustan releases his complete filmography. He describes these then unknown and daring films as follows: My films are shot according to the Warholian dogma: in DV with a very pretty Sony camera that gives a very strange image, without credits, with live sound, without editing. They are edited-whilst-filmed.