Yann Gonzalez

Both a playful pastiche of horror schlock and a sumptuous paean to the transgressive style of Derek Jarman, Hideous emerged from a meeting of minds between Yann Gonzalez and The xx’s Oliver Sim. An opulent, unapologetic reckoning with HIV stigma, starring queer icons Jimmy Somerville and Bimini.

Once we discovered French director Yann Gonzalez’s debut, You and the Night, we had to see more. So we’ve tracked down the short he made just before his first feature—and, unsurprisingly, it is pure kink featuring a mother-daughter stripping act. Hyper-stylized, campy and sexy, the film simply pops!