An anthology about homosexuality and homophobia created by a group of gay Swedish filmmakers who, in the 1970s, decided to film their everyday life and intimacy.
Restored by the Svenska Filminstitutet in 2018, Damned Queers is an interesting testimony of a group of homosexual men that live together in an apartment in Stockholm at the end of the seventies and decided to make a film. The gesture of turning the camera on themselves the camera gives us access to the banality of their daily life, but also the intimacy of gestures and words. In Damned Queers there is, in a sense, a manifest for the affirmation of identity and the consciousness of a proper vision, human and nuanced of reality. But there is also something therapeutical about it. Homophobia, the burdens of heteronormative masculinity, the furtive and voyeuristic looks air the common places about gay sexuality are here places of preoccupation and deconstruction. Registered between the home movie and the actualité, Bögjävlar is both sarcastic and serious, both ejaculation and massage. (Carlos Natálio)
