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Licking Wounds

Imagina 2023 / Licking Wounds / United Kingdom 2022

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Synopsis

A hangover dance and an allegory of a tough queer existence. A performative film which is as appealingly expressive (music by Hannah Holland) as it is bitterly sombre. Aesthetic shots of a male body amid deserted, neglected surroundings, where the well-honed torso contrasts with an expression of decay. A voyeuristic, yet also intimate experience, as exhilarating as a party, and as exhausting as the morning after.

Viktor Palák

About the film

6 min / Color, DCP
International premiere

Director Joseph Wilson / Dir. of Photography Joseph Wilson / Music Hannah Holland / Sound Hannah Holland / Editor Joseph Wilson / Producer Joseph Wilson / Cast Willam Darby / Contact Joseph Wilson

About the director

Joseph Wilson

Joseph Wilson. Selected filmography: Drag Is My Ecstasy (2014, short), Stance (2015, short), Ugly Boys (2018, short), You Make Me Weak at the Knees (2020, short), Isn’t It a Beautiful World (2021, short), I Can See the Sun but I Can’t Feel It Yet (2023, short), Licking Wounds (2022, short).

Contacts

Joseph Wilson
, , London
United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]

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