Cannes’ La Résidence Workshop Unveils Six Filmmakers for 51st Session, Including ‘Pillion’ Director Harry Lighton

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Cannes’ La Résidence Workshop Unveils Six Filmmakers for 51st Session, Including ‘Pillion’ Director Harry Lighton
#Variety #Global #News #LaResidence #Pillion

https://variety.com/2026/film/global/cannes-la-residence-51st-pillion-director-harry-lighton-1236694956/

Cannes’ Résidence Workshop Unveils Six Filmmakers for 51st Session

'Pillion' filmmaker Harry Lighton is one the six international filmmakers selected for the 51st session of The Festival de Cannes's La Residence.

Variety

My husband and I are going to see Pillion together tonight! Of course, we dressed up for the occasion. (You can’t see in the picture, but I’m also wearing my tall boots.)

This is the opening night of the Roze Filmdagen, the annual queer film festival in Amsterdam. https://rozefilmdagen.nl/en This is a *packed* screening, and a significant portion of the audience are in leather, as well!

#Pillion #film #leather #Amsterdam

Je capte pas pourquoi les gens décrivent Pillion comme une comédie romantique (voire une dramedie au mieux), alors que c'est une histoire triste et violente (qui fini bien) sur l'isolement causé par l'homophobie et la vulnérabilité à subir des relations toxiques quand on souffre de grave solitude.

Mais c'est des pédés qui font du BDSM alors hohoho c'est cocasse quand-même.

(J'ai complètement capté et la réponse c'est l'homophobie)

#Pillion #Film #Cinema

I saw Pillion tonight. Wow. I really liked it and the end stuck with me. I can't talk about why without getting into spoiler territory but this film stuck with me and I can't express it in a toot. I'm off this week so maybe I'll find time to write a blog post about what I feel. I also need to let my feelings and thoughts marinate.
#pillion #pillionmovie #bdsm #gay #gaymen #lgbtq #lgbtqia #movie #film #cinema #kink #kinks

Pillion is a coming-of-age tale as much as a love story. Through Ray, Colin makes contact with an entirely new plane of existence. He learns that being a sub, for him, is a style of being that gives him greater community, self-knowledge, and sexual satisfaction.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/pillion-dudley-dursleys-kinkiest-year-6b6fc25c9bce?sk=ff4eb61cfc57c7f8b820e9600d67e2f0

#LGBTQ #QueerFilm #Pillion #HarryMelling

“Pillion” — Dudley Dursley’s Kinkiest Year

Sometimes the most unconventional relationships teach us the most about boundaries and self-discovery

Medium

Hearing the #song Bad Feelings by Cobra Man, the band that claims the genre that inspires me, which they call #PowerDisco (the socio-historically incongruous combination of #Rock and #Disco-#Funk) in the gay film #Pillion I've seen yesterday (even though it's a seriously niche band, to my knowledge, that no one I talk to knows about, and that I discovered in 2024/2025), rekindled my motivation to bring Heavy Disco into the world, with a view toward launching a Gay Wave of Disco Heavy Metal

With my theory in mind that Heavy #Metal is part of #Gay culture and that it was, in part, the homophobia of rock/heavy metal culture, appropriated by heterosexuals, that killed Disco-Funk and that, out of duty, homosexuals should revive these two genres and marry them together, even though they were opposed in a double ‘extermination’ of our culture: both through the heterosexualised appropriation of heavy metal culture from gays and through outright homophobic repression (and racism, as homophobia was also being a means of discrediting black people).

That's why I've been working on the composition of my Heavy Disco demo (the #GuitarPro file is called PowerDiscoDemo, but anyway), the latest version of which you can hear attached to this message.

Entendre la #Musique Bad Feelings de Cobra Man, le groupe qui se revendique du genre qui m'inspire, qu'il a appelé le #PowerDisco (l'association socio-historiquement incongrue du #Rock et du #Disco-#Funk) dans le film gay #Pillion, hier (alors que c'est un groupe grave niche, à ma connaissance, que personne à qui j'en parle ne connait, et que j'ai découvert en 2024/2025), a ravivé ma motivation à mettre au monde le Heavy-Disco, dans l'optique de lancer une Gay Wave of Disco Heavy Metal

Avec en tête ma théorie selon laquelle le #HeavyMetal fait partie de la culture #Gay et que c'est, en partie, l'homophobie de la culture rock / heavy, récupérée par les hétéros, qui a tué le Disco-Funk et que, par devoir, les homosexuels devrions faire renaître ces deux genres et les marier alors qu'ils ont été opposés dans une double "extermination" de notre culture : à la fois par la récupération hétérosexualisée de la culture Heavy aux gays, et par la répression homophobe (et raciste, l'homophobie étant un moyen de décrédibiliser les noirs) pur et simple.

Raison pour laquelle, j'ai encore travaillé sur la #Composition de ma "démo" de Heavy Disco (dont le fichier #GuitarPro s'appelle PowerDiscoDemo mais bon) dont vous pouvez entendre la dernière version jointe à ce message.

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Third-wheelin' #Pillion certainly made the post-credits "sooo what'd you think of the movie?" conversation a bit graceless...

#LastFourWatched 🏍️🥇🥊🎭 #Cinemastodon