Ecco Homo (behold man) employs optically printed footage. Thanks to A.I.D.S. hysteria in America, all gay sexuality is once again considered to be essentially pornographic, politically incorrect, sinful or a public health hazard. Ecco Homo is a call to reclaim gay power.
First European Screening, Berlin Film Festival, 1990.
‘Ecco Homo reclaims desire in the age of A.I.D.S…Tartaglia’s an artist at the peak of his powers.’ Vito Russo, The Advocate.
I am watching a segment of Genet’s film, in which the guard is watching the men, and when he removes the gun from inside his jacket, he puts the gun in the mouth of one of the men and then I am watching two men kissing each other on the mouth and then I am watching homo sex and I am seeing men having homo sex and watching the guard having the gun having sex and watching the film with homo sex, I see the men and I watch how they have homo sex in the porno film which the cop said was Genet’s film and the cop with the gun was porno and they said when Stonewall was with the cops and the gun, and the film was porno and they said Stonewall was porno and they said the men were not men and the women were not women, and the men with the women were not porno, and the film with the men kissing on the lips was porno and the cop who was watching the film was a doctor who was watching the film which was not safe porno because it was not safe to be`watching a film with a doctor who was a cop in a film of the men having sex which was porno when they said Stonewall was porno, which was not the film the desired to watch, when the film of desire was the film of men having homo sex in the film with the men, and this man, and this man, and their desire which was burning in the film, and the homo sex of the cop who was watching the police, who have the power, and the doctors, who are the men with the women, which is not porno, which is what they said was Stonewall, which was the film with the women and the men who were not the men with the women, which was not porno, when Stonewall was power which was personal and not porno when it was never really safe for porno which was in the film in which a cop was watching with a gun when the men were having sex with the men, and when personal desire is power when it is unsafe to be watching porno with a doctor who is not Stonewall and a cop who is not porno, who is watching men having sex with men, which is not safe if personal desire is power and the doctor with the power watches the cop in the film by Genet, which was not porno, and the doctor watches the power which is unsafe and the porno, which is the cop watching with the gun which is in the film which is Genet, who was Stonewall, which was not safe when desire is power, and the doctor and the power are watching us watch the film with the men and the homosex and the personal desire which is power in the film with the Stonewall homo sex, which is not the doctor and the cop, which is not porno, in the film with the strength of the person and the sex which is power in the film which is unsafe when the doctor is power and the person with the sex, when the men and the men have homo sex and desire the love which is in the film which was Stonewall which was not safe, which was power, which was in the film which is not safe to watch, when the doctor is the power with the cop, and the film which is not porno is safe, which is not Stonewall, and the men who love the men who desire in the film which is power, which IS Stonewall, are the men who are alive, which is power which is not safe, when desire is not safe, which is the doctor who is power with the cop, in the film which is Stonewall, which was not safe, which is power!
Personal desire is power. Reclaim our desire, reclaim our power.
Collective desire is power. Reclaim our desire, reclaim our power.
