Slash at the Guild Cinema, as part of the SW Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Saturday, October 8 – 9:45 pm only!
Directed by Clay Liford – 2016, 100m.
Part of the 2016 Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival! $10.00 general admission.
Bubonicon 49 is a community partner on this film! We’ll introduce it and possibly have door prizes…
Neil (Michael Johnston), a 15-year-old suburban Texas high schooler, channels his inchoate homoerotic urgings into writing purple-prose “slash fiction” (i.e., fanfic celebrating same-sex close encounters) about the poly-sexual misadventures of Vanguard, the hunky hero of a mainstream sci-fi franchise. When jeering classmates swipe and share a notebook filled with his scribbled tales, the introverted young writer is mortified. But his public humiliation attracts the attention of a far less inhibited kindred spirit: Julia (Hannah Marks), a slightly older fellow student who also dabbles in erotic fanfic and self-dramatizes to the max. With characteristic brio, she encourages Neil to post his slash fiction on a nominally adults-only website geared toward fans and creators of sexually charged (and highly unauthorized) stories about high-profile fictional characters.
“Writer-director Liford offers a bemused yet sympathetic view of a fan-fiction subculture where Dumbledore and Gandalf might strike erotic sparks with some wizard-on-wizard action – and where Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock can happily-ever-after while sharing a cunning little cottage built for two – in ‘SLASH,’ an effortlessly engaging dramedy that somehow manages to sustain an air of buoyant sweetness even while repeatedly referencing erotic fantasies and sexual anxieties. The sporadic flights of taboo fancy are deftly grounded in a coming-of-age story involving adolescent outsiders who write fan fiction during the process of inventing themselves. But this idiosyncratic indie could find a receptive audience spanning several demographic groups.” – Variety
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: GuildCinema.com
Film Info: swglff.com/2016-Slash
Ticket info: swglff.com/2016tickets