IXFF Spotlight: Travis Mathews
By Kuono • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog, Film FestWe caught up with a couple of finalists for the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Fest, and asked them about their films that will be premiered at the competition screening at the Castro Theatre on September 17th (for more details and tickets, visit gv-ixff.org). Here’s our GV Magazine IXFF Filmmaker interviews: Travis Mathews, director of “IN THEIR ROOM”!
Travis Mathews:
In Their Room is my second film to be screened as part of Good Vibe’s Indie Erotic Film Competition. The first film was called Men and won the most creative award at the 2007 screening. This first entry dealt with public sex in bathrooms and the more recent film focuses on the intimate lives of gay men in their bedrooms. But it’s voyeurism that really links the two films.
I like to see what people are doing when they are at their most vulnerable, when they don’t think others are looking. With ITR I wanted to be a fly on the wall as these men went about doing whatever they do when they’re alone. Spying on them as real people, doing real things, felt inherently erotic to me because so much that falls under erotica is devoid of any real character development. Just like with any movie we’re more interested in the subject once we feel that we know them as people. As we all grow increasingly dulled by the instant gratification that video sites like XTube provide I think the idea of real intimacy becomes increasingly important toward making something sexy and erotic. This was the chord I was trying to strike with ITR.
Thank you and best of luck to Travis, who’s film will be premiere at the Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Fest competition screening at the Castro Theatre on September 17th (for more details and tickets, visit gv-ixff.org). Tickets are on sale at GoodVibes.com.
See more on Travis Mathews movie In Their Room at the film’s website: intheirroom.com
Kuono >> Magazine Editor, Web Producer at GoodVibes.com and manager of the Good Vibrations Affiliate Program (GVAffiliates.com). Okay, back to work.
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