US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
2013
Boston LGBT Film Festival 2013
Interior. Leather Bar.
with In Their Room: London
Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews re-imagine the lost 40 minutes from “Cruising” as a starting point to a broader exploration of sexual and creative freedom.
A film about a film within a film. In order to avoid an X rating, 40 minutes of gay S&M footage was rumored to be cut and destroyed from the 1980 film, “Cruising.” Inspired by the mythology of this controversial film, filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborate to imagine their own lost footage. Amid the backdrop of a frenzied film set, actor Val Lauren reluctantly agrees to take the lead in the film. Val is repeatedly forced to negotiate his boundaries during scenes on and “off camera,” as unsimulated gay sex happens around him. The film itself is constructed as a play with boundaries remaining queer in subject and form. As much a film about filmmaking as it is about an exploration of sexual and creative freedom, “Interior. Leather Bar.” defies easy categorization. NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE
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In Their Room: London
Following up on his IN THEIR ROOM: BERLIN (BLGBT FF 2012) Travis Matthews returns to the Boston LGBT Film Festival with the third installment of his intimate In Their Room project – a series of portraits of men in their personal spaces – is shot in London. Focused on the ups and downs of dating in an age of GPS hook-up apps, the film’s subjects talk frankly about their sex lives, romance and relationships as they wash, trim and dress up in preparation for a date.
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