A blue book from 1980 holds the intimacy we've forgotten how to feel.
A gay man living in present-day Manhattan finds himself in a culture of alienation and performative intimacy, at odds with the gay writings he discovers in a particular blue book from 1980.
Writing
Dialogue that stings with recognition for any queer millennial.
Production
The blue book itself—a character, a portal, a wound.
Director
Patrick Keene
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Patrick Keene sourced the blue book from a real 1980s gay personal ad archive found in a Brooklyn estate sale.
The film deliberately echoes Cruising's production design while inverting its politics—here the danger isn't Other queer men, it's the absence of them.
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