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Film Maudit 2.0 Festival
In 1949, Jean Cocteau launched a festival to celebrate overlooked, shocking, and experimental works of cinema that the gay, influential avant-garde filmmaker named after a French phrase literally meaning “cursed films.” The outré concept was revived last year by the Highways Performance Space & Gallery, a nonprofit cultural center in L.A. devoted to providing space for and presenting work by alternative, independent, and innovative artists.
The second annual Film Maudit festival runs online for free through next weekend and offers a collection of 18 feature films and 21 shorts programs, plus specially commissioned performances and discussions, as eclectic and varied and as weird and risqué as you could hope for.
Santa Monica s revered Highways Performance Space presents Film Maudit 2.0, a truly unusual selection of feature, short and experimental films, some that blend performance and cinema, and others with decidedly queer themes.
Named after gay art film director/artist Jean Cocteau s term for his 1949 festival of Cursed Films, the second annual festival spans a wide range of narrative styles and streams January 12-24. The festival is free with registration.
With 125 works of cinema from 25 countries including films rarely if ever seen in festivals, the selected works address sociopolitical issues and taboo subject matters that challenge conventional artistic assumptions and sexual mores.