Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

THE RED TREE / L`ALBERO ROSSO is short documentary that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini`s Fascist regime. In the film, an elderly man returns to the island of San Domino where 60 years before during the Fascist era he was imprisoned with hundreds of other men for being homosexual. As he walks the island alone, memories come back - of all-male dances in his home town in Sicily in the 1930s, of his beating and arrest, the difficulty of prison life on the island, the suffering of gay men under fascism, and their public humiliation after their return. And of this unique island where all the prisoners were gay, and the seeds of a community were first sown.

A visual artist and filmmaker, Paul began making films in 1995. Since then he has completed over forty shorts, documentaries, video installations, and experimental films, which have shown internationally from the Berlin Film Festival to San Francisco International to the Centre Pompidou.