Océan LeRoy

I was very proud to wear the outfits of the leather brand of the year [dos santos] for their last photo shooting! it was a pleasure to work with Marcel Steger.

I think this was the smallest studio I had to act in, and certainly the biggest camera I ever saw – with multi-lenses directed on my eyes, and a crew waiting for me to cry on demand. The idea is so simple, so pure and so true: men so rarely cry in front of a camera, that the talented director Giuseppe Vaccaro  invited 13 actors, all men, to cry. And that in 3D… rebellious hair have all been waxed, shadows erased, so that the pure taers could explose the screen… A touching project – noone left that set without any tears – challenging each of us, to give an authentic insight into what pure emotion is.

This is official! Mommy is coming, the latest Film of Cheryl Dunye, is to premiere next February 9-19th at the A Film festival in Berlin! Yay!!!

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Well, I must say – perform in an ice bar was quite an experience that could actually beat the previous record (a church in Sao Paulo..) At -5°C I was quite happy that I could perform in the very next room. Otherwise for sure everything would have been melting!

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Well, I really did not want to sing Femme like you in Berlin, as I conceived this performance 6 years ago – and Diane who invited us to participate to her Book release Party knew this one as we met at the King Village in Rome in 2008. But as I am parallely shooting a new film in which we needed the images, I eventually perfomed it just before my lastest performance. Balance

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After a week of screenings, my Jury in charge of the Feature Films gives the prizes to Man at Bath (Christophe Honoré) and Madame X (Lucky Kuswandi).

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Lying down on the warm metal plates along the river just in front of the club where we perform on that night, I cool down with Geo Wyeth, my artist fellow from the States. I am amazed he knows the work of Gainsbourg so well and we sing the first notes of l’hôtel particulier together. Nice moment between screenings, long rehearsals and the excitement of the audience.

TransScreen Amsterdam Film Festival 2011

Studio Manager Leo welcomes me, pointing out that the calendar today is dedicated to the ocean – a good sign for a successful class today, he says with his charming smile. Well, the class today will be quite a challenge for all of us, as Brad is pushing us back to our childhood when we had a vision of what we would like to be. (weiterlesen…)

Somehow crazy to get into the location for a sound check and there are only old men playing chess in the room. Never could I have imagined that these somehow surprising settings in a beautiful but quite bourgeois bask town would turn into a really hot queer party at night…

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review by the gay online magazine 7Pekados on my show in Bilbao:

“Los espectáculos de drag queen son muy comunes. Pero quizá no tanto los drag King, mujeres que se transforman en hombres. Por eso, la organización de Zinegoak quiso sorprender a su público con la actuación de Ocean Leroy, que muestra su cara femenina y la masculina al mismo tiempo, con un espectáculo de baile y canciones reivindicativas. Señalando que aún queda mucha lucha para erradicar la homofobia, dedicó uno de sus temas a David Kato.”

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