O Fantasma

NOTE: The June 11 screening at 4:30 p.m. has been canceled.

Dir. João Pedro Rodrigues. Portugal. 2000, 87 mins. DCP. With Ricardo Meneses, André Barbosa, Beatriz Torcato. At night, while the city of Lisbon is fast asleep, strapping Sergio (Meneses) works as a garbage man, up to his neck in filth and solitude. When a new motorcycle-riding neighbor moves to town, Sergio makes him his object of obsession, plunging him even deeper into the abject and perverse: bathroom cruising, a shower head cord wrapped around the neck, the void of a black latex gimp suit. Portuguese filmmaker Rodrigues dives deep into social and erotic alienation, and finds in queerness an embrace of our most feral human impulses. O Fantasma offers a compelling collision of eros and displacement. 

Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission. Review safety protocols before your visit.