I guess this close up on my belt makes clear what it is all about! The first Lesbian-Trans* Porn Comedy with all a great mix of Berlin, Paris and West Coast porn stars is in the movie theaters from March 8th! Couldn't be a better date, right? At any case: test your limits and see for yourself if you make it until the end.. ;-) watch the trailer on http://mommyiscoming.com/
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I was very proud to wear the outfits of the leather brand of the year [dos santos] for their last photo shooting! it was a pleasure to work with Marcel Steger.
![Océan for [dos santos]](http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54ab0531e4b039f27003f650/553ebc91e4b0e82e0ed95f70/553ebc96e4b0e82e0ed9637c/1325956537000/black-O-for-dos-santos.jpg?format=original "black O for dos santos")
I think this was the smallest studio I had to act in, and certainly the biggest camera I ever saw - with multi-lenses directed on my eyes, and a crew waiting for me to cry on demand. The idea is so simple, so pure and so true: men so rarely cry in front of a camera, that the talented director Giuseppe Vaccaro invited 13 actors, all men, to cry. And that in 3D... rebellious hair have all been waxed, shadows erased, so that the pure taers could explose the screen... A touching project - noone left that set without any tears - challenging each of us, to give an authentic insight into what pure emotion is.
This is official! Mommy is coming, the latest Film of Cheryl Dunye, is to premiere next February 9-19th at the A Film festival in Berlin! Yay!!!
I actually must have the only role who does not fuck in that movie... of course: I play the club owner, hehehe... not the biggest, but certainly the most interesting part to check what everybody was doing ;-) We all can't wait for the Berlinale to see you laugh and sparkle - or simply hate it, depending on how much you can handle, Darlings!!!
Well, I must say - perform in an ice bar was quite an experience that could actually beat the previous record (a church in Sao Paulo..) At -5°C I was quite happy that I could perform in the very next room. Otherwise for sure everything would have been melting!
But this is only the performing part. I enjoyed at least as much the film festival part, being a jury member for the second time... we picked “Weekend”, which also was the Critics’ Pick of IndieWirein the following week. If you get a chance, watch it. The insight into this gay intimate story is so awesome tht it nearly has a documentary character. Our Nominee Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho won 3 weeks after the Iris Prize in Cardiff. So Aquavit did not eventually prevent us from a good job ;-)
After a week of screenings, my Jury in charge of the Feature Films gives the prizes to Man at Bath (Christophe Honoré) and Madame X (Lucky Kuswandi).
Here are the Statements of the Jury: Man at bath: Man at Bath is a beautiful, daring and provocative look at a seemingly simple situation: The breakup of a gay couple. Director Honoré manages to take us on a tour de force into the days after the end of a love. The films' fragmented style, switching back and forth in genre, form and place is a brilliant analogy for the fractured state of its protagonists. Eventually, Man at Bath is a complex and smart interrogation of what it means to see and what it means to be seen, a film about invisibility and overexposure, a statement on sex and intimacy and how it is so often confused in a gay male subculture.
Madame X: Madame X took us on a truly cinematic adventure into a hilarious utopia between comic style, glamour and trash. Director Lucky Kuswandi tackles the big issues of homophia, transphobia, oppressive political regimes and lets its superhero, a transgender hairdresser in rural Indonesia eventually dance it away. The Jury would like to honour the filmmakers for their courage to tell a difficult story in a funny and empowering way, for their strong political statement and for their social consciousness to bring more peace to the world.
I leave the town with the nicest memory: an encounter with Pyuupiru, the Japanese artist I discovered together with the Tel Aviv TLVFestival Director Yair Hochner at the Asian Hot Shots Film festival in Berlin l last year in a great documentary about her life... beautiful private moments between english and japanese words to exchange about our lives...
Lying down on the warm metal plates along the river just in front of the club where we perform on that night, I cool down with Geo Wyeth, my artist fellow from the States. I am amazed he knows the work of Gainsbourg so well and we sing the first notes of l'hôtel particulier together. Nice moment between screenings, long rehearsals and the excitement of the audience.
Studio Manager Leo welcomes me, pointing out that the calendar today is dedicated to the ocean - a good sign for a successful class today, he says with his charming smile. Well, the class today will be quite a challenge for all of us, as Brad is pushing us back to our childhood when we had a vision of what we would like to be. Every actor in the room will be improvising from that starting point: "as I was a child, I wanted to be...." Hardly any of us will leave the class today without having left a drop of body liquid. Well, at least a tear or some sweat. It is an incredible excitement to go back to these very moments of innocence and purity, when you are genuinely yourself, into yourself, with yourself and your intimate dreams, your envision of what life, your life could be, and not wasted by the views of parents or society, not shaken by doubts, not crushed by deceptions, not poised from ambition, vanity or the illusions of fame. Not an easy exercise to take that back on stage in front of a professional, however supporting audience. But a great one. A great first class announcing a series of new practices and techniques to be more fluid through different shells, still strongly anchored in the character you are incarnating. Great stuff, as Brad would keep repeating. Yeah, great stuff!
Somehow crazy to get into the location for a sound check and there are only old men playing chess in the room. Never could I have imagined that these somehow surprising settings in a beautiful but quite bourgeois bask town would turn into a really hot queer party at night...
... in a really cool mix of Tolosa inhabitants, friends & visitors from Bilbao and San Sebastian who I had already met last month or last year. Loved to see the fascinated eyes of excited children during our repetition, the outraged mothers leaving the room as our beautiful queer punky grrrrls undressed during the artists' dinner, and simply enjoyed the openness of all others staying all night long. Something special binds me to the Bask country... feels like home ;-)
For those who can't make it to Spain or the States... let's go BERLIN next week-end, 22 january @ WAREHOUSE will be the place to premiere "not your life inspiration", hardcore electro style... Wanna know more about the fact that being sucked sucks?! Then COME! also performing Marianne Vlaschits, Phil Plastie and Signora Bianca Fox. at the turntables Tomas Hemstad, Helga P. und Almodovar-Spezi Luis Miguelez.
more ZMF info: www.zurmoebelfabrik.de
Don't forget to regularly check out my up.coming shows here: www.oceanleroy.biz/shows. the year is filling up fast!
WHO will be in Bilbao at the Zinegoak Film Festival this year?? :-)) will premiere my new song "Not your life inspiration" there on January 29th... CAN'T WAIT!!!
Today starts the Drag King photo exhibition curated by Eyes Wild Drag in Firenze, Italy. In the portraits and photos around the world, you will find many of the most extraordinary drag king artists' faces and performances, from USA to Australia, from Italy to Russia. Large format prints of one Debra's Kate (USA) and Tania A. (Canada) photos of Océan LeRoy will be on view at the "Azione Gay e Lesbica" from December 4th-5th in conjunction with the "OUT OF GENDER" Drag King workshop and at the DRAG MADONNA party at FLOG from Tuesday, December 7th.
Other photographers exhibiting their work: Alison Bennett (Australia), Angela Potenza (Italy), Claudia Papini (Italy), Eva Mueller (Germany/USA), Hélöise LeChat(Belgium/Italy), Rivkah Hetherington (UK/Italy).
Ciao!
3...2...1...curtains open!
Océan goes truely wordwide. After years and years of traveling the planet and meeting you and celebrating my shows with you I simply HAD to embrass the technological possibilities out there. it is multi-media, after all, isn't it?! ;-)
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see ya!
Désarmés as part of the Fucking Different Tel'Aviv compilation has been screened in the quite opulent cinema of the SOHO House in Berlin on Saturday, November 20th.
Quite a contrast to the screening at the Q! Film Festival in Jakarta, where the film - mainly because of his title - has been taken as a diabolic example of homosexual pornographic western propaganda by fundamentalists groups. More about that to follow...
Southern Queers, IDKE's fans, performing arts and theater lovers - come to the French Quarter of New Orleans to discover the most wild, weird, fresh performers! This year lots of international stage-obsessed have been invited. I will myself check how fearless the audience is on Friday Night at 8pm.
I actually prefer the title of the print version...: The Show must go Beyond! The New Orleans Theater Festival pushes boundaries
www.nofringe.org
read more from the festival here
"Liberté" is one of my very favourite pictures, and I am not the only one: lots of venues, or the press, ask for it after checking my web side gallery. Maybe you were lucky enough to get the postcard this summer for the French Summer Night at Marianne's? But even then - go for the real thing, exposed in full format at Risk Hazekamp's last exhibition in Berlin Mitte! And discover further pictures full in the lineage of her earlier work inviting to...freedom. www.souterrain-berlin.de
Der Kalender umfasst 16 Seiten und enthält 24 farbige Portraitsfotografiert von Finn Ballard. Auf zwei Seiten stellen sich die Models mit Schwarz-Weiß-Bildern und kurzen Texten vor. Als besonderes Extra gibt es ein farbiges Poster mit sieben weiteren Portraitaufnahmen, das ganzjährig die Küche zieren oder über dem Bett hängen kann.
Auf den Fotografien Finn Ballards werden aus alltäglichen Menschen an alltäglichen Orten Persönlichkeiten, die den Blick festhalten. Die Bilder enthalten eine Spannung, die die Individualität der abgebildeten Personen unterstreicht und zugleich deutlich macht, dass es sich bei ihnen um selbstbewusste Akteure und nicht um Objekte ihrer Umwelt oder der Betrachtenden handelt. Es entsteht der Eindruck von Intimität, ohne dass die Models entblößt wirken oder ihre sichere Distanz zu den Betrachtenden verlieren. Dadurch, dass die Integrität der abgebildeten Personen gewahrt bleibt und sie die Betrachtenden aus ihrer eigenen Welt heraus anschauen, schafft Finn Ballard intensive Momente der Interaktion zwischen seinen Portraits und den Betrachtenden.
Die porträtierten Trans*männer, Genderqueers, Butches und Drag Kings sind einige der brillianten Sterne in der unendlichen Milchstraße der TRANSMÄNNLICHKEITEN.
Finn Ballards Anliegen, durch seine Portraitkunst TRANSMÄNNLICHKEITEN sichtbar zu machen, eröffnete dieses Projekt. Organisatorisch unterstützt wurde es von LCavaliero Mann, Ben Böttger, Ina Schneider und Micky. Das Konzept und die endgültige Form des Kalenders sind aus einem kreativen Gruppenprozess entstanden, an dem Models und Fotograf gleichermaßen beteiligt waren, und der ohne die Hingabe und Leidenschaft aller Beteiligten nicht möglich gewesen wäre.
Details: TRANSMASCULINITIES Pictures from Beyond the Malestream ein Fotokalender mit 24 Portraitaufnahmen.
Format: 29,7 x 29,7 cm 16 Seiten plus Poster erscheint zum Oktober 2010
Der Kalender wird vom NoNo Verlag vertrieben und kann online bestellt werden: http://nono-verlag.de
(Text: Nono-Verlag)
Yes, you read well. A QUEER culture festival in Saint Petersburg... attended by 2700 people. Photographers, dancers, poets, scientists, musicians from Russia, Sweden, Israel, France and Italy delighted and inspired audiences for 10 days. At least 160 publications have been printed publications in major St. Petersburg newspapers and lifetime magazines, as well as on the internet media. Most encouraging of all, 90% of all these publications are clearly non-homophobic reports – not scandalous or “yellow-press”, the like of which has never before been seen in Russia! 16 300 people visited the site of the Festival www.queerfest.ru. All this makes the Festival an unprecedented success in drawing attention to LGBT rights in Russia.
This is cruelly necessary, because this success has not been obvious. The Union of Artists Exhibition Center (formerly planned as photo exhibition venue), under the pressure from the St. Petersburg authorities, terminated the contract only one day before the opening of the Festival. But within 24 hours, a new venue was found, hundreds of people still found their way to the opening, a letter in support of the Festival was signed by 1600 people and 30 organizations. Just after the show, the milicia irrupted in the club and threw us all out on the street in the middle of the night, because of a "bomb alert". We could all go back after an hour in the freezing rainy night - and continue to celebrate our rights.
"Homophobia": Océan on Stage with Eyes Wide Drag, ironically the last performance before the milicia irrupted into the backstage area
On Friday night, there was an interesting panel about art and politics, being an artist, or be a citizen. But - you can not divide, you are - even as an artist - a citizen. You can not chose, you cumulate - in case you're an artist, however with a film, a painting, a photography, a performance, your mission is to transport a clear message, inspire with your interpretation of life, your perspective. It is political the very moment you express yourself - as an artists. And it is your responsibility to articulate a clear message, make yourself understandable. But ths doesn't make you less a citizen, and certainly not more than a citizen. Because as a citizen, you also have the choice - so keep silent or speak out. No need to go on stage. The street is enough.
and as a little bonbon for hardcore-fans, here you can see yourself what the show looked like:
thanks, Aleksandr!
The last posters in town - before they were taken by the fans after the Show... even if the picture has some rehabilitation traces of Photoshop, they obviously loved the picture by Christiane Stephan! We had indeed to erase the title which was originally painted on my body.. no, i won't tell you what! ;-)
Aidan, in sailor's outfit, on his four, swaps the deck of the boat. Standing about a metre away from him,the captain supervises his work. He holds a flogger in his hand, starring at Aidan's butt.
CAPTAIN (angry) So you think you're doing a proper job here?
And that is only the beginning of a guite hot scene where Kay actually brought the boat to GLITTER in the sun. I can't wait to see Aidan & Gilbert on screen!! A deep friendship story about 2 boys, while they accompany each other throughout the ups and downs of their testosterone-injected second adolescence between relationships, polyamoury, night life, dates, art, jobs, sex and the fun and trouble those things cause!
Aidan & Gilbert - director Sean Moxie