“Who We Are”, by Sean
Willis, is an 18 minute short film (2010) in which a fundamentalist
pastor’s son Connor (Justin Fix) befriends a gay teen Alex (Taylor Caldwell)
and agrees to help with an event with the school Gay-Straight Alliance.
Connor has to deal with his own feelings, and when Alex is beat up in a
convenience store, a real crisis will happen for Connor’s father, who can’t
even see why bullying is wrong.
It struck me that I
would have been utterly incapable of having that pastor’s life and family,
constructed around such beliefs and the demands they make on others.
There’s a great song,
“At the end of the day, all we have is who we are”. It sounds familiar and has a cheery lilt.
Another interesting
short is “The Burning Boy” (2001, Ireland), by Vizpoets and Kerian Galvin, with
Cameron Ford (Ben) and Josh Roberts (Chill). A straight teen and gay teen
go on a swim, and then on a day hike to a cabin on a heath. The straight
teen opens up somewhat, and there is a little intimacy, and then an accident
that sets the cabin on fire. Is the boy who escapes a coward?
Link is here.
And here's a bonus (May 25), call it a "short film #3" if you like: "Basketball and Mathematics" ("Basket et Maths"), by Rodolphe Marconi, has a teenage basketball player in an upper class "ecole" fall for his math tutor, and his mother is indifferent. The youtube tranfer is fuzzy, link.
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