Shaun De Waal

Shaun de Waal has worked at the Mail & Guardian since 1989. He was literary editor from 1991 to 2006 and chief film critic for 15 years. He is now editor-at-large. Recent publications include Exposure: Queer Fiction, 25 Years of the Mail & Guardian and Not the Movie of the Week.

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/ 31 October 2007

Bodies seen and unseen

By the time you read this, the Film and Publications Board should have decided whether to allow screenings of One Night Stand (Pour Une Nuit) at the upcoming Out in Africa gay and lesbian film festival. One Night Stand is a film by Émile Jouvet, who decided to investigate lesbian women’s attitudes to porn by … well, by making a porn movie. This promises to be very interesting.