Daniel Castillo Reynoso | Fractal / 2011

licking it up

by Douglas Messerli

 

Daniel Castillo Reynoso (director) Fractal / 2011 [6 minutes]

 

According to commentator Noel Alejandro, Mexican director Daniel Castillo Reynoso’s Fractal, made for Anal Magazine represents a trend in gay pornography toward experimentation while still featuring the body as a sexually fetishized object.

     In this short film I’m now sure how “experimental” the work actually is, but I can assure you it the threesome of the thin male models in this work, Karl Forest, Jorge Lozano, and Erevank Argel, behave more like cute Hallmark card boys with an anal fetish than any gay porn movie I’ve witnessed.

     Forest is alone in his tiny swimming shorts for most of the movie, playing a video game, resting in the sun of his backyard, waking about the city and the nearby woods, attempting (not very successfully) to learn how to skate board, and, most importantly, pouring milk down his head and letting drip down his entire body before sitting on the floor where his dog gladly licks it up, resulting in a great deal of pleasurable giggles. The dog and I finally got bored with it.

      Otherwise, he wrestles his buddies, let’s his friends draw doodles upon his chest, arms, abs, and necks, and joins them on the bed for an entwined body spread. Now and then the camera seems to fantasize that instead of wearing his tiny swimsuit, he’s gone naked, revealing his cute ass.

     But nothing that wouldn’t be fit for a 10-year old to watch in this porn flick!

 

Los Angeles, May 1, 2024

Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog (May 2024).