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Like Cattle Towards Glow

Country: Germany | France | Canada, Language: English, 90 mins

Gay | Shorts Compilation | Drama | 2015

Director: Dennis Cooper; Zac Farley
Writer: Dennis Cooper; Zac Farley
Producer: Jürgen Brüning; Nicolas Comeau

CGiii Comment

Mumblecore collides with experimental while skirting around some porn that clashes with arthouse and the result is...truly ridiculous and somewhat grim.

But...there's no denying the technical skill.

Shame about the content... 5 stories, linked tenuously with rape...and the exploitation the young 'actors' - stiff willies and licked bums are in abundance.

It starts with a rentboy who is required to play dead. Then, a performance artist is raped live on stage with a rather apathetic audience watching (the sound/music is grotesque). Moving swiftly along...a boy offers his behind in exhange for some heroin...It gets worse...a couple in gorilla suits rape a boy in the snow...with a truly memorable exchange - for all the wrong reasons:

"I want to rape them."

"It's too cold."

And finally, a surveillance drone zooms about the place...focusing in on a young man who doesn't do much.

The acting is nearly as bad as the writing. But...the production values are impressive...and, the cinematographer has a definite talent.

Such a shame about everything else.

Trailer...

LIKE CATTLE TOWARDS GLOW - teaser Trailer from zac on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Like Cattle Towards Glow is a film consisting of five independent, thematically and emotionally interconnected scenes. The film is a complex, intimate, strangely serene, wide-ranging, and always challenging exploration of sexual desire as a hiding place. In these unique, stylistically and temperamentally diverse scenes, each one featuring its own set of characters and storyline, sex makes a promise of something so intense and untenable to the characters that they feel they must enter it in secret — through an act of violence, or under the guise of an unrelated transaction, or by rationalizing its dangers away with the help of politics, or through utilizing it remotely as material for a purely aesthetic project. Like these characters, and like sex itself, LCTG is as deep, knowing, and unknowable as it is raucous, original, and explicit on the surface.