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When 17-year-old Anna Lorentz returns to Narvik in 1940 with her older sisters and brother, they find their town destroyed. They recover the family home, and survive the years that follow by running a hair salon. All this time, Anna nurtures her own dream.
Animated magazine cutouts of two men having sex lead into appropriated gay porn images, blurred to the point where they become abstract colour and motion. All this is set to pastoral sounds, sex noises, and a reporter's voice-over about the RCMP’s “fruit box” experiments - official and ludicrous attempts to expose closeted gay men.
“Jeijay” begins where most romantic movies end. The film is about two people who try to repress the slow but inevitable decay of their relationship. Feeling isolated in their own little home, more and more of the happy facade of their love life comes crumbling down. The profound melancholia of the subject is captured in little everyday moments that are intertwined with dreamlike sequences.
After wandering away from his mother at a Filipino wet market, Chris, an imaginative young boy, must find his way back to his while evading a monstrous figure that stalks the alleys.
As he remembers a relationship with a younger man, he reflects on his insecurities, traumas, and his own sexuality.
Animator Ryan Larkin does a visual improvisation to music performed by a popular group presented as sidewalk entertainers. His take-off point is the music, but his own beat is more boisterous than that of the musicians. The illustrations range from convoluted abstractions to caricatures of familiar rituals. Without words.
Nudnik runs into the usual troubles.
A ceramist is in her humble atelier surrounded by her creations. Outside, a world in flames. Inside, dark inner worlds take shape.