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  • Meet Me at the Club
  • Chris & Martina: The Final Set
  • Dreamboi
  • Shelter
  • When the Mind's Free
  • Stronger Together
  • Are You Afraid of the '90s?
  • Liminal
  • Four Girls
  • Possible Days - Trilogy on Tenderness
  • Rita Moreira: chronicles, memories and videotape
  • Me Niego Rotundamente
  • Lo Noy
  • Bombacha
  • Amor Trava
  • Man I Love (The)
  • Loves Company
  • Our Colors Never Fade
  • Mayflies
  • Tracy & Martina: Goin' Out West
  • Test
  • Portrait of the Father at 71
  • What we did in the Shadows
  • Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
  • Movement Song
  • My Name
  • Miss You, Love You
  • Twice the Beast
  • Two Weeks In
  • Umjolo: There Is No Cure
  • Barefoot Boy
  • New Fears Eve
  • In the Grey
  • Black Ball (The)
  • Moss & Freud
  • Social Sin (The)
  • F*ck Drugs
  • Emergency Exit
  • MACDO
  • Proud

Public Life

Country: USA, Language: English, 16 mins

  • Director: Matthew Allen
  • Writer: Matt Mitchell
  • Producer: Chevis Labelle; Tani Shukla

CGiii Comment

Aaargh...this is so good...with problems.

There is an edit that will make you gasp...and that's where the film should have ended.

Matthew Allen's skill is there...it just needs a little more technical honing.


Watch...

Public Life from Matt Allen on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

In the age of social media, a high schooler must come to terms with both his sexuality and his friend's death.

Cast & Characters

Matt Gomez Hidaka as Noah
Julie Dell Phillips as Principal Paller
Damian Joseph Quinn as Eric
Chris Tse as John
Ernest Keith Walker as Mr. Anderson