Timothy Simons

Movies

The Best of J. Brian
(segment "First Time Round") (archive footage)
This well-edited and narrated retrospective of gay fuck flick pioneer filmmaker J. Brian (Brian J. Donohue) sparkles precisely because of what it lacks: the artist himself, speaking in his own words. This serious omission allows the artist's work to speak both for him and for itself, and allows the viewer a freshness unencumbered by bias. The work, five films and seven vignettes, speaks loudly of J. Brian's vision of youth, sexual freedom, and naturalism unfettered by society or its constraints.
First Time Round
Lowell, the sailor
A surfer meets a salesman meets a handyman meets a... in this all-male take on La Ronde.