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Equation To An Unknown

Altered Innocence

99 min. Directed by Dietrich de Velsa

Curator's Note:

Nearly impossible to see for decades since its original release, the film was rediscovered by director Yann Gonzalez during his research for the film Knife + Heart (2018), researches he got from the director Hervé Joseph Lebrun who had made Mondo Homo: A Study of French Gay Porn in the '70s (2014) and who was historical advisor for Knife + Heart (2018). Yann Gonzalez was so taken with the film, he tracked down the negative in a French film lab, commissioned a new 16mm answer print, and used this to create a subtitled DCP to share the film with a broader audience. (Via IMDB.)


Description:

This long-lost masterpiece of gay erotic cinema centers on a handsome young stud who rides his motorcycle through myriad of sexual encounters, from a soccer game's locker room to a dreamy and unsettling orgy where the film reaches its melancholic peak.

Newly scanned in 2K from the original camera negative and directed with absolute grace by the mysterious Dietrich de Velsa (aka Francis Savel/Frantz Salieri), this former painter was also the owner and artistic director of one of the first transvestites' cabaret of Paris, La Grande Eugène. Years later, he collaborated with Joseph Losey on Mr. Klein and Don Giovanni. EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN (Équation à un inconnu) is his only film and stands without a doubt as a masterpiece and the best French gay adult film ever made.

In French with English Subtitles.

"The most melancholic porn film I've ever seen."
- Yann Gonzalez (Knife+Heart)

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