Lot in Sodom (1933)
- Directed by
- James Sibley Watson
- Genre
- silent film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 28 min
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 31 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This silent experimental short retells the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. It focuses on gay male desire and societal condemnation.
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What happens
Lot in Sodom is a 1933 short silent and experimental film directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber. The film stars Friedrich Haak, Hildegarde Watson, Dorothea Haus and Lewis Whitbeck. The premise of the film is loosely based on the nineteenth chapter of Genesis, the biblical tale of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The film deals with themes of gay male desire and heteronormative prohibition, and uses quotes from the Bible for the intertitles. It was the first American film made on the subject of Sodom and Gomorrah, and is considered part of the first American avant-garde cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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