Rebecca Pappa

Experience an alternative take on attraction with Boys On Film. Bad Romance explores the darker side with a collection of edgy and sexy short films, including: Alain Hain's "Curious Thing" starring Danny Bernardy and Matthew Wilkas; Christoph Scheermann's "Cake and Sand" starring Bartholomew Sammut and Jan Andreesen; Michael Rozanov's "Watch Over Me" starring Guy Kapulnik and Davidi Hoffman; Joachim Back's "The New Tenants" starring David Rakoff and Jamie Harrold; Kim Jho Gwang-soo's "Just Friends?" starring Lee Je-hoon and Yeon Woo-jin; Étienne Desrosiers's "Mirrors" starring Xavier Dolan, Stéphane Demers, and Julie Beauchemin; Christopher Banks's "Communication" starring Rudi Vodanovich and Alexander Campbell; Tomer Velkoff's "The Traitor" co-starring Shmulik Goldstein; Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein's "The Strange Ones" starring David Call, Tobias Campbell, and Merritt Wever; and Tamer Ruggli's "Cappuccino" starring Benjamin Décosterd and Manuela Biedermann.

Jared is closeted. Sam is straight. They find a connection in each other that they've never had before, but where do they go from there? Over the course of three nights, six gay men sat down for interviews about their experiences, sexual and otherwise, with straight men. Those documentary interviews provide the narration for 'Curious Thing' as we watch Jared and Sam form a friendship that tests the boundaries of what they know about love. But as Jared's walls slowly come down and his passion for Sam grows, things take an unexpected turn.

1947年、シカゴ。ポーランド系移民の若き野心家レナード・チェスの経営するクラブでは黒人ミュージシャンたちがライブ演奏を行っていた。その中の一人、ギタリストのマディ・ウォーターズは陽気なハーモニカ奏者リトル・ウォルターと組んだ新しいバンド・スタイルで評判を呼んでいた。チェスはさっそくマディにレコーディングの話を持ちかける。やがて彼らの歌声は人種の壁を突き崩し、ついにラジオからも流れ始める。その後も、チャック・ベリーやエタ・ジェイムズら所属アーティストがヒットを飛ばし、その度にチェスは彼らに成功の証としてキャデラックをプレゼントするのだった。