boys in the sand
by
Douglas Messerli
Miguel
Starcevich (director / photographer) Dry / 2014 [3 minutes]
Whoever
wrote the pretentious blurb for this piece of “cinema” was obviously reaching
for audience that it will never find: “In a barren desert, two men given
themselves over the emptiness and to each other, creating a bast, experimental
portrait of connection and surrender.”
Nonsense, this is not a film but is a
promo shoot for the kind of arty photography book which uses the male nude to
excuse it’s exotic locales, in this case the seemingly Saharan desert. There is
little interchange between the two naked figures of this work, just the usual
handsome profiles, shadows and interactions with the natural ripples of sand,
sky, and body.
I cannot find a list price of the actual
German-produced book, but you can begin bidding for it on E-Bay for $149.00.
Don’t bother with the 3-minute movie. Strange to see this on Gay Films Matter,
since this is not a film, providing hardly any gay matter.
Los
Angeles, November 28, 2025
Reprinted
from My Queer Cinema blog (November 2025).
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