Sunday, June 25, 2023

Shorts: The Ace of Wands Tarot

“Shorts: The Ace of Wands Tarot” (shorts program)
Friday, June 16, 1:00 pm, Castro + streaming encore

Big Sur Gay Porn, dir. Ryan A. White, 2023, USA, 12 min. 🙂 • 🌐 World première
Os animais mais fofos e engraçados do mundo (The Cutest and Funniest Animals in the World), dir. Renato Sircilli, 2023, Brazil, 24 min., in Portuguese with subtitles 👎 • 🌎 North American première
Império (Empire), dir. Thais de Almeida Prado, 2023, Brazil, 4 min., no dialogue 👎 • 🌐 World première
How to Carry Water, dir. Sasha Wortzel, 2023, USA, 15 min. 👏
Ob scena (Ob Scene), dir. Paloma Orlandini Castro, 2021, Argentina, 18 min., in Spanish with subtitles 👎 • 🇺🇸 U.S. première
The Script, dir. Brit Fryer & Noah Schaus, 2023, USA, 15 min. 💖
犬漏 (Solid), dir. Hiroki Iwasa, 2021, Japan, 14 min., in Japanese with subtitles 👍 • 🌎 North American première
Y, dir. Matea Kovač, 2023, Croatia, 7 min., in Croatian with subtitles 😐 • 🌎 North American première

Big Sur Gay Porn, dir. Ryan A. White, 2023, USA, 12 min. 🙂 • 🌐 World première

wooden sign at the beach: Big Sur Gay Porn
Big Sur Gay Porn
Filmmaker Tom DeSimone made several gay and straight porn films, including Sur, before transi­tion­ing to more con­ven­tion­al filmmaking. DeSimone was particularly fond of the beach at Big Sur as a location for filming. Docu­men­tar­ian Ryan A. White shows DeSimone a copy of Sur, a film that had been lost to time but was re­dis­cov­ered and dig­i­tized. DeSimone’s summary: Don’t see this film [the orig­inal Sur]! Big Sur Gay Porn was mildly inter­est­ing, worth seeing for his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive.

• IMDb page • Official website (n/a) • trailer •
Os animais mais fofos e engraçados do mundo (The Cutest and Funniest Animals in the World), dir. Renato Sircilli, 2023, Brazil, 24 min., in Portuguese with subtitles 👎 • 🌎 North American première
older man with towels folded into a swan
Cutest and Funniest

An older man works as a janitor in a hotel and records audio of guests having sex to play back for a friend while they have sex. It started off kind of cute and funny, but veered off into inexplicably weird and creepy. Not recom­mended.

• IMDb page • Official website (n/a) • trailer •
Império (Empire), 🔞 dir. Thais de Almeida Prado, 2023, Brazil, 4 min., no dialogue 👎 • 🌐 World première

the word IMPÉRIO over a blurry picture of 3 naked men
Império
Three men stand naked in profile, visible from mid-thigh to lower abdomen, their penises bobbing up and down (no hands), while piano music, nature sounds, and what sounds like it might be a power saw occupy the background. The Frameline program says, “The crown jewels of the empire rise and fall.” Let’s hope not. Completely gratui­tous. Not recommended.

• IMDb page • Official website • trailer • Twitter/‌Instagram: @ThaisAmPr •
How to Carry Water, dir. Sasha Wortzel, 2023, USA, 15 min. 👏

3 large women in swimsuits in a natural pond
How to Carry Water
This short film is a portrait of Shoog McDaniel, a self-described fat, gay, disabled photographer in northern Florida, an area with lots of natural springs. She finds that swimming liberates her from carrying the weight of her body, and she photographs other plus-size women in the same spirit of libera­tion, cele­brat­ing being sensual and sexual and beauti­ful. Highly recommended, espe­ci­al­ly if you find it chal­leng­ing to see a large person (yourself or someone else) in that kind of a positive light.

Note: there is a strobing effect at around 10 to 12 minutes that may bother some viewers.

• IMDb page • Official website • trailer (n/a) • Instagram: @SashaWortzel @ShoogMcDaniel •
clothed woman sits on the floor with lots of money seeming to spill out of her lower torso
Ob Scene
Ob scena (Ob Scene), dir. Paloma Orlandini Castro, 2021, Argentina, 18 min., in Spanish with subtitles 👎 • 🇺🇸 U.S. première

A woman reminisces about her childhood, including having surgery on her private parts, and then embarks on a clinical deconstruction of erotic images and pornog­raphy. I found it neither particularly illuminating nor particularly erotic. Not recommended.

• IMDb page • Official website • trailer 🔞 •
The Script, dir. Brit Fryer & Noah Schamus, 2023, USA, 15 min. 💖

actors and crew on a set of an office meeting
The Script
The Script is a docu-drama about the process of getting gender-affirming care in the U.S. medical system. It talks about the process so many trans individuals have had to go through of trying to shape their experiences to fit their therapists’ preconceived ideas of their “disorder” in order to check the right boxes. Excellent, definitely a MUST SEE.

• IMDb page [Fryer] [Schamus] • Official website [Fryer] [Schamus] • trailer (n/a) • Twitter: @BritFryer @NSchamus •
犬漏 (Solid), dir. Hiroki Iwasa, 2021, Japan, 14 min., in Japanese with subtitles 👍 • 🌎 North American première

two men kiss
犬漏 (Solid)
Two Japanese men are having sex right as a series of earth­quakes strike. Their phones help­ful­ly chime a warning notification just after each tremor starts, but just as they go back at it, another after­shock strikes. They reminisce about the big earth­quake a few years ago. Cute, amusing, recommended.

• IMDb page • Official website [http] [en/ja] • trailer •
Y, 🔞 dir. Matea Kovač, 2023, Croatia, 7 min., in Croatian with subtitles 😐 • 🌎 North American première

multiple overlapping line drawings in a jumble
Y
Two women talk about lines while line drawings of them pleasure themselves, pleasure each other, and generally move around. The artist deconstructs her relationship with an ex. The images are on a white backdrop, and the subtitles are in white with the thinnest possible black outline, making them sometimes quite difficult to read. It wasn’t horrible, just “meh.”

• IMDb page • Official website [in Croatian] • trailer (n/a) •
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