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Taxi zum Klo (German, English, French with English subtitles)
Location
Main screening room
Date
January 24th, 2025
Duration
116 min
Cycle
Love

An essential and timeless theme if ever there was one, love naturally holds a special place in cinema. Romantic, sensual, obsessive, ambiguous, forbidden, lighthearted or profound, love on screen is as diverse as the individuals who live its stories. Drawing form different eras, tones, and cinematic styles, this program brings together a selection of remarkable films that will warm your heart from the start of the winter season to Valentine’s Day.

The film will be preceded by Tom CJ Brown's short film Christopher at Sea

Christopher at Sea
Directed by
Tom CJ Brown
Language
English with French subtitles
Origins
France, USA, United Kingdom
Year
2022
Duration
20 min
Genre
Animation
Format
Digital
Synopsis

Christopher embarks on a transatlantic voyage as a passenger on a cargo ship. His hopes of finding out what lures so many men to sea sets him on a journey into solitude, fantasy and obsession.

Christopher at Sea
Taxi to the Toilet
Directed by
Frank Ripploh
Language
German, English, French with English subtitles
Actors
Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Orpha Termin
Origins
West Germany
Year
1981
Duration
96 min
Genre
Comedy, drama, romance
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

The life of a homosexual couple, with all its tenderness and violence.

Taxi to the Toilet
A tragicomic story about the impossibility of a couple’s life. Taxi zum Klo is neither a pornographic film, nor a sociological exposé, nor a moral lesson.
Frank Ripploh
1982

Frank Ripploh

Frank Ripploh was a German actor, film director, and author. He is best remembered for his semi-autobiographical 1980 film Taxi to the Toilet. The film, produced on a shoestring budget, explored the day-to-day life of a Berlin schoolteacher who also led a very active gay sex life. Extremely explicit for its day, and for some time afterward (to the point where the film was not passed uncut by the British Board of Film Classification until 2011), Taxi to the Toilet was considered groundbreaking for the subject matter it portrayed, and achieved something of a cult status among gay audiences of the time. In 1987, Ripploh directed a sequel entitled Taxi to Cairo, but the film was not considered as successful, and it was not released outside Germany. Ripploh also participated in the creation of a small number of other art house films during the 1980s, and had a role in one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s last film, Querelle, in 1982.

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