‘Songs About F—ing’ Director James Gallagher on Capturing the Sex-Fueled Grandeur of Marc Rebillet

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Ethan Shanfeld Half an hour into “Songs About Fucking,” James Gallagher’s music documentary premiering at Tribeca on Saturday, Marc Rebillet points the microphone at a burly, bearded gentleman standing in the front row of his concert and asks, “Sir, how are you?” “I’m great,” says the man, dressed in only his underwear and a bathrobe. “I’m pregnant and it’s yours.” “I didn’t expect you to be here, if I’m being honest,” replies Rebillet, also robe-clad, weighing his options. “You wanna come up here and deliver this baby?”  Rebillet then invites three women — one of them actually carrying a child — up onstage to assist with the procedure, before the so-called pregnant man grabs the mic and starts rapping over a techno beat.

Then, he sits down so Rebillet can thrust himself from between his legs — an infant, crying on the floor. In the world of Rebillet, a musician and performance artist also known as “Loop Daddy,” this interaction is hardly out of the ordinary.

In fact, it was completely improvised, as is the rest of Rebillet’s show. When, in September 2021, Rebillet embarked on his Third Dose Tour — a reference to the then newly available COVID booster shot — he invited Gallagher, whom he’d met only once, to join him on the road.

So, for 46 days, Gallagher rode — without a film crew — on Rebillet’s tour bus, capturing the sex-fueled theatrics, little epiphanies and unbridled joy of live music after lockdown. “One of the lessons I learned very early on in the process is to stay open and pay attention,” Gallagher tells Variety, “because life ended up being a lot more interesting than any of my preconceived notions about it.” Below, the filmmaker elaborates on his relationship with Rebillet, the biggest challenges of