GAY NOSTALGIA, 53′
BIG SUR GAY PORN by Ryan A White
LAST YEAR AT BELVEDERE by Todd Verow
CALL ME by Charles Lum, Todd Verow
GOOD BOY by Marcoestuvoaquí
HUNK IN TRUNKS by Lee Campbell
REAL MAN by Rafael Rudolf
BEWARE by Wrik Mead
JACKOB ET JIM by Wolfgang Wisely
A selection of porn shorts dealing with gay history and culture: famous cruising spots, vintage porn magazines, old propaganda films, in a melancholic voyage between personal and collective stories.
WEDNESDAY 17 APRIL 2024 – H 22:00 – TRENTA FORMICHE – ROME
FRIDAY 26 APRIL 2024 – H 19:00 – TRENTA FORMICHE – ROME
BIG SUR GAY PORN by Ryan A White. Cult filmmaker Tom DeSimone revisits the production of a lost gay film and resurrects youthful adventures on the California coast, but nostalgia isn’t always 20/20 vision.”Big Sur Gay Porn” is an ode to the queer possibilities of rural, outdoor spaces. It is a film about memory, history, and aging – as seen through one man’s stories of a very special place.
LAST YEAR AT BELVEDERE by Todd Verow. Two gay men try to remember if they had met before as they spend the summer on Fire Island. A homage to/parody of the classic film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais, set in the present day at the notorious gay guest house the Belvedere.
CALL ME by Charles Lum, Todd Verow. A man enjoys a quick sexual interlude while listening to his answering machine messages.
GOOD BOY by Marcoestuvoaquí. The author’s erotic imagination is mixed between desire and magazine clippings, and the trade of collage becomes a ship that travels from outer space to the city itself.
HUNK IN TRUNKS by Lee Campbell. “The best experiences are those in public private spaces”. The narrative, presented as visual poetry, takes us to early 1990s Britain, where sex education for gay teenagers largely ignored homosexual relationships. In the absence of internet resources, these teenagers creatively repurposed various objects originally intended for women to explore homoerotic desire and love.
REAL MAN by Rafael Rudolf. A boy dreams of being a man like the ones he lusts for. Does the man he becomes live as he imagined?
BEWARE by Wrik Mead. BEWARE takes sound bites from the 1961 anti-homosexual propaganda film Boys Beware and flips it on its head. The hacked-up narration serves as the voice over to a barrage of glitched intimacies making the homosexual monster more fun than frightening.
JACKOB ET JIM by Wolfgang Wisely. A twist on the classic blue movie; Informally shot amongst three friends on a ciné-camera. A new couple explore one another’s body whilst their friend tenderly introspects on a late appreciation of the male form.
