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BOYS ON FILM X is the tenth volume in the world’s most successful short film series.
All boundaries are broken as BOYS ON FILM X takes it further than ever before, showcasing some of the most sexy, unique and brilliant filmmaking from around the world.
These eight new short films have been showcased in some of the world’s biggest festivals including Frameline Film Festival, Iris Prize Film Festival, Outfest and the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.
BLINDERS – Dir. Jacob Brown (USA) 10mins 2011
One night a young couple (Enter The Void s Nathaniel Brown & Byrdie Bell) visit a bar one where they meet a young creature of a boy (Luke Worrall). This boy possesses an otherworldly physical beauty that could attract anyone; man or woman. And indeed, the young lovers are attracted, one more so than the other. What does this chance meeting mean for their relationship?
A STABLE FOR DISABLED HORSES- Dir. Fabio Youniss (UK) 13mins 2012
When Kanoute decides to move back to Norway his best friend Benny throws him a surprise party a party just for two. It soon becomes apparent that Benny has a secret that he has to get off his chest before Kanoute leaves, but is it a secret Kanoute wants to hear?.
LITTLE GAY BOY, CHRIST IS DEAD – Dir. Antony Hickling, Amaury Grisel (FRANCE) 30mins 2012
Jean Christophe dreams of becoming an international model, but in reality lives with his mother, an English prostitute in Paris. Over the course of one unusual day, JC endures a series of abusive encounters that will change him forever. His youthful innocence is changed to hardened experience as his dreams are destroyed by those around him.
BOYS VILLAGE – Dir. Till Kleinert (UK/Germany) 22mins 2011
The Boys’ Village was once a holiday home for coalminers’ sons, boasting a pool, sports yards and even a chapel of its own. Not much remains of its former glory, though. Shattered glass and debris are all over the place; graffiti on the walls. There are countless trap falls and opportunities for injury. This is a parent’s nightmare and yet it can be heaven on earth for a certain kind of child. It more or less is for Kevin. He has been 11 years old for quite some time now. Has it been years or decades?)
HEADLONG – Dir. Lukas Shont (Belgium) 17mins 2012
On the night of a dance competition a young ballet dancer (Jelle Florizoone – North Sea Texas) is in a foreign place. He finds himself alone in his hotel room and when this emptiness overpowers him, he meets a stranger that could change everything (Thomas Coumans – North Sea Texas).
YEAH KOWALSKI! – Dir. Evan Robert (USA) 10mins 2011
Gabe Kowalski is a late bloomer and all-around misfit whose dad still cuts his hair. When Gabe s anonymous question about his still smooth armpits is selected to be read aloud in sex-ed class, Gabe goes to great lengths to impress his classmate crush, Shane, at Penny Foster s birthday party.
INFLATABLE SWAMP – Dir. William Feroldi (UK) 14mins 2010
Matt, a gay man in his late 20s, navigates the lonely intersection of carnal sex and human closeness. With the arrival of Luke, a new man in his life, he finds a way to reconcile pleasures of the flesh with the new aroused imperatives of the heart. INFLATABLE SWAMP is an unusual exploration of gay male psychical intimacy.
TEENS LIKE PHIL – Dir. Dominic Haxton & David Rosler (USA) 20mins 2012
Phil, a shy, insecure teenager growing up in an affluent American suburb, is trapped in the painful throes of adolescence and the internalised struggle in coming to terms with his sexuality. At his elite private school, Phil is bullied by Adam, his former friend and love interest. Adam frequently lashes out against Phil and enjoys humiliating him in the locker room. When Phil can no longer tolerate the situation he takes drastic action to bring it to an end.
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Published On December 8, 2013 | By Florence Hinton-Collyer | LGBT Features and Interviews
The tenth instalment of one of cinema’s most celebrated short film series Boys on Film X is set to be an explosive cinematic exploration of LGBT themes and lifestyles.
Leading up the last months anticipated release, we at Renowned For Sound spoke with some of the directors involved in the release to discuss their films.
In today’s interview we chat to Till Kleinert about his short, Boys Village.
Florence Hinton-Collyer: How would you pitch your short?
Till Kleinert: A young boy, Kevin, who apparently lives all by himself in a derelict, abandoned boys’ summer camp, tries to make himself noticed to a teenager who regularly visits the premises with his friends. Yet the gap between the two appears all but unbridgeable – for several reasons. It is a film that is much more driven by atmosphere than by plot. Solitude and longing are very prominent themes throughout the film, as are childhood and its inevitable end. Slight traces of horror and the supernatural are to be found, as well.
Boys on Film InsertFHC: What do you hope for the audience to take away from having watched your film?
TK: Beyond the very basic hope for them to enjoy and engage with what the film has to offer, I really wouldn’t want to narrow their experience by stating my own expectations up front. But I am always very curious to hear their interpretations and feelings after they have seen it!
FHC: Why did you choose to depict this particular narrative?
TK: I have always been fascinated with abandoned places. Whenever I discover one, I start to wonder about its secret life – what kind of stories might be haunting these walls, what kind of occupants might still be dwelling within them? They become like a fetish, metaphysically linked to past events, time periods, people, yet also signifying their imminent, ultimate perish. It is actually a very morbid spleen, come to think of it.
So when Cardiff-based photographer Jon Pountney introduced me to St. Athans Boys Village, which is an actual former summer camp built for coalminers’ sons in the 1920 at the South Welsh seaside, naturally, my creative engine started to roll. Particularly striking to me was the contrast between the former use of the premises as a safe, healthy environment for kids, and its current state, a skeletal, overgrown ensemble of buildings littered with hazards and smeared with graffitied obscenities. The development of the narrative with its thematic focus on the contrast between childhood and adolescence emerged very natural from that.
FHC: How does Boys Village challenge boundaries?
TK: I don’t know if ‘challenge’ is the appropriate word, as the film, like its protagonist, to me seems far too gentle in nature to openly challenge. I think ‘permeate’ is a word I like more. Like Kevin, the film seeks to poke little holes into the perceived boundaries between past and present, childhood and adolescence, ‘queer’ and normative behaviour; and perhaps through these holes some sort of contact can be made, some sort of understanding can pass.
To give an example: the film got an unexpectedly strong response when it played at the Beijing International Student Film Festival in 2011. The Chinese students attending the screening seemed curiously receptive of its themes. Kevin’s solitude and his small gestures of rebellion resonated very strongly with them – as did his presumed, but implicit homosexuality. Many students told me after the screening how they identified with Kevin, and for some of them that served as a way to acknowledge their own ‘queerness’ without having to resort to a vocabulary that to them might still be laden with prejudice and taboo. It was great to experience such an immediate permeation of cultural boundaries.
FHC: How do the purgatorial undertones impact upon the film?
TK: Being a kid of a certain age can certainly feel like being stuck in limbo. All the fun seems to be elsewhere, and you’re too young to join in, invisible to your surroundings – but you’re also getting too old to find satisfaction in the games you used to play. Summer holidays in particular used to feel endless to me as a child, with all my friends gone elsewhere. So Kevin’s being stuck in the Village could be seen as an extreme incarnation of that particular feeling.
FHC: What’s next for Till Kleinert?
TK: Coming up next is as feature film I wrote and directed called Der Samurai, a taut, nightmarish thriller due to be released next year. I’m very excited about it. It’s a totally different beast – if Boys Village could be likened to a ghostly whisper, Der Samurai will be more like a resounding, delirious roar.
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