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    Ache

    • 2008
    • 00h 03m 00s
    • Wrik Mead
    • Rent $100
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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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    • CFMDC Logo

    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

    Winter’s End

    • 2010
    • Wrik Mead

    A wintery sun sets on a scene of loss and mourning. The grieving protagonist plummets capriciously from one state of sadness and confusion to another. Battered by forces malevolent and absurd, mirroring his unpredictable emotional states, he repeatedly falls into an avalanche of ice. Down into a barrage of helping hands, down into a winter forest, down into rooms full of memories, and finally down into the place where he must accept the truth.

    Winter’s End

    Hand Job

    • 2001
    • Wrik Mead

    A lonely figure walks to a private screening room. What he is getting excited about is not what it may appear.

    Hand Job

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