The cultural memory embedded in 20th-century films is revisited through a queer lens, celebrating eros and sexuality. Confronted with archival images, Langston Hughes’ poem stands as a powerful reminder: between birth and death lies the ability to love and truly live. When political rules, religious doctrines, social norms, and cultural taboos seek to control and regulate the right to love, the erotic emerges as a revolutionary act. (Vanessa Santos)