Raging Sun, Raging Sky + Introduction

Julián Hernández’s Raging Sun, Raging Sky is an erotic journey through the hidden spaces of cruising. In a city where water becomes a portal between the everyday and the mythic, Kieri, Ryo and Tari drift through rainy alleys and leaking bathrooms and cinemas. A mysterious female spirit known as the “Heart of the Sky” hovers over their encounters, guiding their shifting affections.

Alternating between black and white and colour, Hernández recalls the poetic homoeroticism of Jean Genet’s Song of Love, transforming cruising grounds into spaces where loneliness finds release through communal encounter. Longing looks and sexual embraces oscillate between sensuality and violence before giving way to increasingly dreamlike and spiritual realms.

This screening will be introduced by the season curator Nico Hughes.

Raging Sun, Raging Sky dir. Julián Hernández, Mexico 2009, Spanish with English subtitles, 191 min.