
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

"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
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
Written, Directed and Performed by James Franco and Russell Sheaffer




