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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

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