Boys on Film 11: We Are Animals: Directed by Rodrigo Barrio, Shaz Bent, Domic Haxton, Bryan Horch, Magn Mork, Carlos Augto Oliveira, Eldar Rapaport, Nicholas Verso. Wh Zaman Ahmadi, Akram Akbari, Matthew Ashford, Richard Ballon. A seri of eight short films alg wh the varied experienc of gay men and boys." data-id="ma
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GAY SHORT FILM SHOWSE: WE ARE ANIMALS – AN ALTERNATE HISTORY TAK TO A POLICE STATE PANIC OVER HIV
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Related | Gallery: Every Image From Our We the Animals Cast ShootTorr, a gay, half-whe, half-Puerto Rin wrer, wrote We the Animals largely based on his own experience. "When I met Jt, " Zagar says, "he was clear that he wanted the story to have a strong queer backbone -- that was a g-out story, thentilly about a young, homosexual boy disverg his sexualy.
" In rponse, Zagar enlisted his iend, gay -wrer Daniel Krosser, who also kept a journal while fdg himself his youth, and offered a perspective that Zagar uldn't as a straight man. "My mother and father never ed homophobic language, but I was horrible to this kid. He’s quiet but playful, and spends his time sketchg his secret notebook, makg drawgs that are homo-erotic and based on a neighbor boy he longgly star at and eventually attempts to kiss later the film.
“I thk that when Ma fds out that Jonah is gay, is ls of a betrayal of her bee of some ethil, moral iology or somethg; ’s more that she n’t believe he’s been keepg a secret om her bee they have such a strong alliance, ” says Sheila Vand. ”“We the Animals” is never a nmnatn of a young boy’s homosexualy — stead, ’s an exploratn of a fay through the ey of a child who is feelg out the rights and wrongs om wh a world where there are too many nsistenci to be pletely sure. Homosexualy and childhood make for strange but necsary bedfellows.