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    • Ache

    Ache

    • 2008
    • 00h 03m 00s
    • Wrik Mead
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    Synopsis

    Two male blow-up dolls become puppets in this short. Not only is one of the men out of air, but both of them are tragically out of synch with one another.

    Categories

    • Animation,
    • Body,
    • LGBTQ2S+,
    • Sexuality

    Shooting Format

    • Betacam SP

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Colour,
    • Sound,
    • Stereo

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Central Canada

    Screening Formats

    • AppleProRes,
    • Beta SP,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Director: Wrik Mead

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    More By Wrik Mead

    Overcome

    • 2011
    • Wrik Mead

    Porn star, Ryan Russell is rotoscoped in this performance about ego and Eros. In the tradition of the peepshow a private sexual performance is made public. A lone figure enters the frame, smirks at the camera and gets down to business. Is he simply there to entertain himself or is this a performance for the viewer? It eventually goes terribly wrong when he quite literally drowns in his own ego.

    Overcome

    Boy

    • 2009
    • Wrik Mead

    “Boy” is a short film that touches on sexual orientation, homophobia and acceptance. An animated figure swings at the viewer while a robotic voice whispers so that no one around him can hear. Slowly descending into self-doubt, he questions his choices and what he has become.

    Boy

    Hoolboom

    • 1999
    • Wrik Mead

    HOOLBOOM is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom.

    Hoolboom

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