De Profundis

Buffalo-based filmmaker, curator and arts advocate Lawrence Brose's landmark De Profundis is a 65-minute meditation on gay desire based on Oscar Wilde's infamous prison letter presented via lush hand-processed imagery. The film utilizes vintage erotica, home movies, radical faerie gatherings, queer pagan rituals and drag shows alongside a piano score by Frederic Rzewski which incorporates Wilde's text as a means of exploring assimilation and sexuality through hand painted frames and manipulation. The result is an exploding utopia of colour and a layered but equally privileged soundscape.