Mysteries and Desire: Searching the Worlds of John Rechy(2000)

Mysteries and Desire: Searching the Worlds of John Rechy Synopsis

Challenging the borders between autobiography, memory, history and fiction, this interactive memoir presents a diverse array of personal materials by and about John Rechy and sets them against larger collective histories of Chicano culture and the gay world. Drawing passages from all of Rechy’s published novels, it also mines the outrageous fictions that circulate around this fascinating literary figure who, as a gay icon, a Chicano writer from Texas, a dedicated bodybuilder, a gifted teacher of creative writing, and the 1997 recipient of the PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award, has long been a subject of notoriety and fantasy. Combining original artwork, video, archival documents, and recorded interviews and commentaries, it lets you move through three interrelated realms – Memories, Bodies and Cruising – each with its own daring repertoire of gestural interfaces.

Mysteries and Desire: Searching the Worlds of John Rechy (2000) is a drama and documentary film directed by Marsha Kinder, released on September 10, 2000 with a runtime of 11m. It stars John Rechy.