Baptiste Lamy

Devotee is the story of Hervé, an assertive 43-year-old man who was born without arms or legs. He meets a gorgeous young man on line, a devotee (devoteeism or acrotomophilia) is the sexual attraction to people with amputations) who seems like he might be different. Their encounter proves Hervé's difficulty in finding a true connection with someone who is interested in treating him like a person rather than a mere fetish.

Between music and silence, a pale boy handsome as a statue by Canova and a flamboyant black boy in a ritual photographed by Marcel Mazé. With the presence of a Michel Journiac's self-portrait sculpture, votive offerings of sacred skulls and crucifixes, dried flowers, Monique Delvincourt fragmented mirrors, Louboutin heels, images of the assoluta Diva and a sound re-articulation of Gounod's Faust by Berndt Deprez.

The Story of Sodom and Gomorrah offers a comical seventies-style version of the well known biblical account of the divine punishment of the most perverse of men. As its title suggests, the film was constructed using the Village People's disco hit Sodom and Gomorrah as well as gay porn film shot in super 8 in the 1970s. By virtue of the film's editing, the multiple superimposed images accelerate at a crescendo pace towards the film's climactic outburst, due as much to the divine wrath as to the porn actors of this cinematic Sodom and Gomorrah…

First film of the artist, Appolénus is a selfportrait in which he directed the beginnings of a debate on gender identity. From pictures of his childhood and shop windows exciting her femininity, he dresses gradually as a woman in front of a mirror, with music punctuated by agonizing laughter.Oscillation of an identity between Apollo and Venus, which ends with a gender reversal of of a famous painting.

A rereading of my artistic viewpoint with regards to an intimate wound, this filmic introspection is constructed from a quotation from Querelle de Brest by Jean Genet and from a text that I had written, read and associated with certain excerpts from my videos. I develop the idea that a violent sexual humiliation is the cause of a painful wandering which leads to a voluntary closing down into the confines of oneself in order to protect oneself from the violence of the other. Subsequently, there arises a desire to escape and a thirst for vengeance which is materialised in the act of creation which enables one to appropriate the stigmata in pushing them to their most extreme consequence and, in doing so, recover one’s voice by way of an orifice which is usually deprived of such expression.