Film

kiss-o-drome

2016 · 1m · Documentary

In 1980 an extraordinary demonstration hit the streets of the Brazilian city of Sorocaba. Under the military dictatorship, a court had outlawed kisses that undermined public morals. The ruling by Judge Manuel Moralles, which punished such kisses with jail terms, described them this way: “some kisses are libidinous and therefore obscene, like a kiss on the neck, on the private parts, etc., and like the cinematographic kiss in which the labial mucosa come together in an unsophismable expansion of sensuality.” The city responded by becoming one huge kissodrome. Never had people kissed so much. Prohibition sparked desire and many were those who out of simple curiosity wanted a taste of the unsophismable kiss.

• Johan GrimonprezDirector
• Eduardo GaleanoWriter
• Pedro CollantesEditor

kiss-o-drome [ story written and read by Eduardo Galeano ] - Johan Grimonprez, 2016

Release date

January 1, 2016

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1m

Genres

Documentary