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

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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