Humpback

Synopsis

Three white hippies walk through an urban roof garden. They put flowers in their hair, wafers in their mouths, meditate, let their clothes flap in the wind. They perform an idea of freedom, sewn into church steeples, heteronormative rituals, colonial appropriation and the voice of a male narrator following his flow of thoughts; through the hierarchies and blockages in the body to the stulle in the cross. In "Anal Terror", the preface to Guy Hocquenghem's "Homosexual Desire", Paul B. Preciado develops the image of the sewn-up asshole to visualise sexual repression and binary restriction to penis and vagina as sites of sexual reproduction and repression. This suture also runs through Hunchback, becoming thread of life, halo, umbilical cord, straightening bodies, tugging the head up, over everything else and stabbing into the flesh. Humpback is straight hippie roof garden horror between cruel persiflage and white delusion dream.