When Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviewed Antony Hickling’s Down in Paris, he stressed that It was impossible to overlook the influence of Federico Fellini’s 8½ ,  In this his fifth film in which he directed and starred  as the troubled English filmmaker Richard, Hickling put himself under the spotlight by questioning the essence of an artist.

Hickling  is one of those rare queer experimental filmmakers that had the foresight to discover such respect for his body of work in Paris  that he also now teaches there at Cours Florent  one of France’s most prestigious drama schools. 

He recently sent us one of his early shorts PD (Pederaste) which we are so happy to share.  The setting is a cruising area that takes on majestic proportions as we discover Greek-esque male bodies in the forest. The sonnets 18, 57, 20 by William Shakespeare add to the Midsummer Nights Dream like ambience of the film. 

PD a short film/Poem began as homage to the book Derek Jarman’s Garden photos by Howard Sooley and was filmed entirely with a mobile phone.

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