Wicked Queer 34

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Paternal Rites

Saturday

,

Mar 31

@

6:30 pm

With Director Jules Rosskam in person.

Wicked Queer 34

US PREMIERE

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

Paternal Rites

Saturday

Mar 31

@

6:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

With 
Director Jules Rosskam
 in person.
Paternal Rites is a first-person essay film that examines the secret underbelly of a contemporary Jewish American family as they grapple with the aftereffects of physical and sexual abuse on their present-day lives. It is also a groundbreaking film about the nature of trauma and memory itself: the ways in which trauma encrypts in uncanny ways; the function of speech and narrative in the process of decryption; and the role of film and filmmaking in the practice of healing. Paternal Rites draws inspiration from podcasts like This American Life and Radiolab and the long lineage of LGBT essay filmmakers in the U.S. such as Jenni Olson, Marlon Riggs, and Richard Fung.
Director
Jules Rosskam
Year
2018
Run Time
82
min
Country
USA
Language
English
PROGRAM Time
minutes
Content warning:
Paternal Rites is a first-person essay film that examines the secret underbelly of a contemporary Jewish American family as they grapple with the aftereffects of physical and sexual abuse on their present-day lives. It is also a groundbreaking film about the nature of trauma and memory itself: the ways in which trauma encrypts in uncanny ways; the function of speech and narrative in the process of decryption; and the role of film and filmmaking in the practice of healing. Paternal Rites draws inspiration from podcasts like This American Life and Radiolab and the long lineage of LGBT essay filmmakers in the U.S. such as Jenni Olson, Marlon Riggs, and Richard Fung.
This film is presented in
English
with English subtitles.
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Heritage

25
min 
Content warning:
Noam, young gay guy, discovers his father, who just died, had a secret romance with another married man. He follows and meets that man. He now holds his father’s secret.
DIRECTOR
Yuval Aharoni
COUNTRY
Israel
LANGUAGE
Hebrew