Eavesdropping on Jason Sato’s Brothers (1973)

Video essay that returns to the 1973 first hardcore feature-length gay porn film, to find in its soundtrack the shadow presence of its maker, the beguiling Japanese American video artist and activist Norman Yonemoto. A look at how sound is used to inject racial consciousness in early gay pornography.

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SHORTS: SHADOW BOX

Sly background audio, impossible films, refugees-turned-Coppola movie extras. Shorts that wrestle with shadows in the archive and unfinish history.