i would be happy if i never left this room again
by Douglas
Messerli
Blake Wood and Matt
Lambert (screenplay), Matt Lambert
(director) Heile Gänsje (Heal, Goose) / 2013 [13 minutes]
Heal, Goose, which calls up a German song about childhood, a
group of Berlin youths discuss their sexual lives, both gay and heterosexual,
living in group housing. But the central figure, Max Gass, despite or perhaps
because of the general fluidity of sex is still confused. He is highly
attracted to both his female friend, Emme Preisler, and his gay friend Malik
Blumenthal, and suffers in the shifts of his own imagination and actualization
of sex.
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By the end of this short film, however, he
finds complete satisfaction by realizing he is a true bisexual who enjoys a
sexual rendezvous with both his female and male friend simultaneously.
This is not a particularly profound film;
most of these kids simply jabber on about their sexual exploits and
realizations that everyone around them, in their endlessly partying world, are
sexually engaged. But it certainly gives us a sense of youthful angst and the
sweaty sexual world that many a young person endures in contemporary life.
I would have loved to have a moment of true
discovery of what made up the dreams and personal imaginations of these
beautiful young persons, but Lambert is interested only in their bodies, their
sexual desires and experiences. Well, this is what is basic in youth, isn’t it?
Five years from now, perhaps we might go back and ask them what they were
really about, what dreams they had other than the press of bodies, and what
they might imagine in the future.
Los Angeles, March
13, 2025
Reprinted from My
Queer Cinema blog (March 2025).
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