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    • Haven

    Haven

    • 1992
    • 00h 03m 00s
    • Wrik Mead
    • Rent $100
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    Synopsis

    Animated magazine cutouts of two men having sex lead into appropriated gay porn images, blurred to the point where they become abstract colour and motion. All this is set to pastoral sounds, sex noises, and a reporter's voice-over about the RCMP’s “fruit box” experiments - official and ludicrous attempts to expose closeted gay men.

    Categories

    • Experimental,
    • LGBTQ2S+,
    • Sexuality

    Shooting Format

    • Super 8mm

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Colour,
    • Mono,
    • Sound

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Central Canada

    Screening Formats

    • 16 mm,
    • AppleProRes,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Director: Wrik Mead

    Provided By

    • CFMDC Logo

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    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

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    • 2004
    • Wrik Mead

    The housecall in “Filth” doesn’t go quite as planned when a simple cleaning job becomes a nightmare. A pixilated tale which combines both the action in the film and the action on the film.

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    • 1995
    • Wrik Mead

    "In ‘(ab)NORMAL’ the relationship spectrum, from paranoid avoidance to smothering and overwhelming attention, is traced through four pixilated sketches." - Toronto International Film Festival

    (ab) NORMAL

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