Lemebel
Joanna Reposi Garibaldi
Writer, visual artist and pioneer of the queer movement in Latin America, Pedro Lemebel shook up conservative Chilean society during Pinochet’s dictatorship in the 1980s. Body, blood and fire were protagonists in his work that he attempted to perpetuate in a film he was never able to see finished. In a journey through his risky performances dealing with homosexuality and human rights, Lemebel portrays a culmination of yearning immortality.