Mens Shorts Program

Join us in a survey of the gay male reality: job interview anxiety, rural hookups, later in life love and some dancing, but please don’t use the blue sponge on the sink, Thanks 🙂

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Program:

Linger
Thiago Kistenmacker • 18 min • Brazil • Portuguese w/English subtitles
João and Vitor used to be paramours but haven’t spoken to each other for 30 years. At 70, they reunite and reconcile past, present, and a possible future after the passing of Vitor’s wife, at a moment when so much of their lives seem to have reached an end.

Magid/Zafar
Luis Hindman • 19 min • UK • Punjabi, English
Tensions arise amidst the heat of a Pakistani takeaway.

Carnations with Credits
Travis Prokop • 11 min • USA • English
Carnations is a dance about the use of the Green Carnation as a coded symbol for gay men in 1892, popularized by playwright Oscar Wilde during his play Lady Windermere’s Fan. The film parallels the relationship between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, whose circumstances would later influence milestones in queer liberation, such as the Hays Production Code and laws defining “indecency.” At its core, Carnations is about timeless love and romance in the queer community.

The Yellow Sponge is the Dish Sponge
Michele Noble • 17 min • USA • English
Do we really need to wash sheets every week? Why would you ever have to clean a shower head? What is the difference between the blue sponge and the yellow sponge? These are the questions that haunt Jason. He doesn’t understand the world’s obsession (and his husband Erik’s obsession) with cleanliness. So, on the day of their big party Jason launches his campaign to open Erik’s eyes to this problem.

The Blame Silence
Israel Cordova • 20 min • Brazil • Portuguese w/English subtitles
After his father’s death, Mauro, a rural farmer, finds himself facing a freedom he never dared to live. Caught between guilt and desire, he confronts his fears to finally embrace who he truly is.

Ornithomancy
S. Volle Osborn • 16 min • USA • English
Minutes before a dream job interview, high-strung Winona turns to ‘ornithomancy’, the ancient art of reading omens from birds, to guide his life choices. Determining that a bird flying left means ‘no’ and flying right as ‘yes’. While phone calls from his boyfriend, family, and roommate collide with his spiraling anxiety, Winona’s reality begins to unravel in absurd and surreal ways.