L'éclipse du soleil en pleine lune (1907); Director Georges Méliès'

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The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)


Part of Georges Méliès' oeuvre

of "Artificially Arranged Scenes"

this film is overlooked

for what it really is:

the first depiction of gay sex

on the big screen



That the celestial act happens

between the sun and the moon

does not make it any less

queer

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A clip can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqgSZ6ZNGAM

Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)

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Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)



Faces belie words;
looks undermine gestures;
such a dance ensues
between lovers and strangers
within a block of
crowded tenements.

Penultimately,
sophisticated sound
ricochets like bullets

off an even more
sophisticated silence;
classy shadows

beguile the eye, as
adult urchins wrestle
within rolling puffs

of smoke
obscuring the gaze--
first artfully,

then almost completely;
as the sound-scuffle plays
against a black screen, you

wait

in darkness

for an ending

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Opening scene of the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf4wUmBM6gk&feature=PlayList&p=757ADA8136927443&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=94