Two classics of New Queer Cinema to (re)discover: Long before Grindr & Co, in "Caught Looking" (Teddy Award for Best Short Film 1991) a young man has sexually charged encounters with beefcake guys in an interactive computer game. And in the beguiling road movie "North of Vortex", a gay poet takes a sailor and a waitress with him on his journey through the USA, not without consequences either.
Caught Looking:
A young man tries to satisfy his sexual needs with an interactive computer game. With an avatar, he glides through various sexual fantasies and "meets", among others, two sailors on shore leave, a man with a moustache and a group of beefcake guys. But can virtual cruising really replace real experience?
North of Vortex:
A gay poet travels west from New York in his convertible. On the way, he picks up a muscle-bound sailor, and later a waitress joins him. The poet has the hots for the sailor, the sailor for the waitress, the waitress for the poet. Constantine Giannari's dreamlike road movie captivates with beguiling black-and-white images and an associative jazz soundtrack. Memories of the themes and motifs of the Beat literature of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg come to mind.
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