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Los Javis filmmakers fight fascism and homophobia with ‘La Bola Negra’
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Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi — known as "Los Javis" — have turned four pages of an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca into a sweeping epic about three generations of gay men in Spain. They spoke with Tonya Mosley about making La Bola Negra, their creative partnership, and art as a weapon against fascism. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our YouTube channel Check out the Fresh Air Archives See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage...
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I'm Tanya Moseley. In the private clubs of 1930 Spain, members used a tidy little system to decide who belonged. They dropped balls into a box. A white ball meant you were in. A single black ball meant you were out. The gay poet Federico Garcia Lorca began a play about that cruelty. He called it La Bola Negra, The Black Ball.
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