
Masculinity & Me
A no-budget production, focused on the perverse candour of young sexuality, where release and sterility become tied to larger cultural constructions.
Inspired by the underground movement of the Sixties, Masculinity & Me is made of lurid and improper monologues about rape and murder and corporal fluids. Their content could be biography, autobiography, fantasy or stoner comedy, depicting ideal masculinity with a pop culture-inflected touch.
YEAR
2010
RUN TIME
21m
Super 8mm, HD
DIRECTOR
James Franco, Russell Sheaffer

Torino GLBT Film Festival, 2011
The Dangerous Book Four Boys (James Franco’s solo show), Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany, February-April 2011
The Dangerous Book Four Boys (James Franco’s solo show), The Clocktower Gallery, New York, June-December 2010
"The best by far is “Masculinity & Me,” despite a bit of gratuitous scatology." ---- Roberta Smith, James Franco's 'Dangerous Book' of Art, New York Times
Written, directed and played by James Franco and Russell Sheaffer




