queertiques
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In Their Room : London/Berlin/San Francisco
US Filmmaker Travis Mathews is a professional voyeur. His documentary movies all focus on gay men and their intimacy and are very raw and explicit. His most successful project to date is ‘Interior Leather Bar’ where he, and a somewhat obsessed James Franco, pieced together what they thought maybe the content of the chunk of…
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Something Must Break
Androgynous punk Sebastian works stacking paint cans in a warehouse by day and at night lives in a cramped messy apartment with his lesbian friend Lea. He is intensely broody and unhappy with practically everything in his life especially his gender, and spends his time in a haze of drugs, drink and hanging out in gay bars…
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Tiger Orange
Wade Gasque’s debut feature, which he co-wrote with lead actor Mark Strano, is an interesting drama about the conflict between two estranged gay brothers who are trying to reconcile after the death of their father. Their sexuality is one of the few things the siblings have in common as Chet is quiet and reserved and…
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Eat With Me
Filmmaker David Au’s debut feature film about an unhappy Chinese-American mother and her strained relationship with equally miserable son is as melodramatic as if it were an Asian type novella. Emma the mother sticks with her boring husband who completely neglects her until he wakes up in the middle of the night and insists on cutting his…
