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‘VATNLAND’ DEPICTS A GAY MAN’S PATH TO COLLEGE, WH LOTS OF EXCS
Todd Verow's 1995 feature but Frisk eliced strong reactns, rultg a near rt, when world premiered on as the closg night of the 19th San Francis Internatnal Lbian & Gay Film Ftival (now Framele) at the inic Castro Theatre, before gog on to screen at Sundance, Berl and Toronto. Based on Dennis Cooper's… * todd verow archives asian gay tv *
Todd Verow’s 1995 feature but Frisk eliced strong reactns, rultg a near rt, when world premiered on as the closg night of the 19th San Francis Internatnal Lbian & Gay Film Ftival (now Framele) at the inic Castro Theatre, before gog on to screen at Sundance, Berl and Toronto. Based on Dennis Cooper’s famo gay serial killer novel, Verow’s adaptatn featured an outstandg die st cludg Craig Chter, Parker Posey, Alexis Arquette, and actor-turned-edor Jam Lyons, wh a sre by Brish experimental band Coil. Set the world of New York’s creative gay adult filmmakg scene of the 1970s, PFFB lls “a nostalgic and melancholic homage to the Goln Age of Gay Porn”.
Ahead of the screengs The Queer Review’s edor Jam Klemann spoke wh the filmmaker about why he admir the gay adult filmmakg of the era, his guidg prcipl for makg a perd movie, why he chose not to make a sexually explic work and the impact William Friedk’s Cisg ma on him when he first saw the 80s.
Jam Klemann, The Queer Review: What is that terts you about that goln era of gay pornographic filmmakg the 1970s? It was after Stonewall and gay liberatn was happeng so there was more visibily and more of a sense of muny about all.