Queerpanorama
SCREENING
At the French Institute:
FRI 06/06 ● 10 p.m.
In a broken city, a gay man impersonates men he has had sex with and brings this new persona with him to his next hook-up. Only by pretending to be someone else can he be truly himself. He first appears as an actor, but later he introduces himself as a scientist, then as a teacher, a delivery man, an architect… He enters the various homes of the men he has met on a dating app, observes their living spaces and tells the stories that have been told to him, but reimagined for himself – and receives new and unpredictable reactions. Sometimes, he delights in this short-term intimacy with a stranger; sometimes the encounters turn ugly and violent. The man feels like he is losing his grip on reality, until one day he meets the actor…