GAY MEN’S BOOK CLUB (2025)

Rotterdam Film Festival
Focus Program: Matthew Lax
January 30 - February 9, 2025

The official GMBC website can be accessed here.

The experimental documentary Gay Men’s Book Club brings together seven homosexuals, ages 26-85 and all almost strangers to one another, to discuss the book Elite Capture by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. Based on an actual book club, the following unscripted conversation, facilitated by the filmmaker in collaboration with community organizer, founding member of the Radical Faeries, and Jungian psychologist Dr. Don Kilhefner, explores Táíwò’s concept of elite capture as it relates to community, privilege, organizing, and intersectionality. GMBC is an intergenerational portrait of the group dynamics found within social environments.

GMBC is commissioned by Prospect Art, with support from Los Angele Contemporary Exhibitions and the Andy Warhol Foundation.

PRESS

Interview with Nick Gamso. “Our Share of the Work,” The Public Review, May 2025.

Bacon, Redmund. “Gay Men’s Book Club: Jubilee for Normal People,” Journey Into Cinema. Feb 1, 2025.

Kolozsváry-Kiss, Cristina, “Matthew Lax: Languages of Power and Love.” 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam catalog. Jan 2025. Print.