Diálogo con el Che (Dialogue with Che, 1968, newly restored, 53’), starring Taylor Mead and Rolando Pea, is a legendary film by queer Nuyorican artist José Rodriguez Soltero that parodies Hollywood portrayals of the revolutionary hero. Presented at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals in 1969.
Reproductions similarly captured its subject at one remove, the Bolex this time trained on a Movieola viewing machine that is being fed strands of the Heins’ holiday snaps. Seemingly innocuous segments of images – an ear or an expression or part of the Champs élysées – are thus put under intense scrutiny.
Four notorious bank robbers – Klaus from Germany, Albert from France, Juan from Spain and Carina from Tangiers meet up in an isolated Castle to divide a large number of diamonds hidden there by their former, deceased boss Boris whose Italian wife Anna is hosting the party. Unfortunately, the stones are kept in a massive safe and only all of the five keys distributed by Boris am...