imnotcocteau
At this years East Village Queer Film Festival, a highlight was Nicholas Hansells highly effective short, Flowers. Here another winsome high-school youth, Josh (Rocco Roberts), a soccer player, is yearning to connect with an openly gay peer. How does we know the object of his desire, Eddie (Henry Leith), is openly queer? Well, hes reading a book daily while sitting with his back against a tree. That sort makes you wonder if any heterosexual has a library card. With time ticking away the films only 20 minutes long Josh has to go to a party and kiss a girl in a bathroom without causing himself or anyone else to barf. Why? Hes trying to prove to his sports-mate (Blake Weise), a hunky homophobe, that hes not that way. Can true boy-on-boy lov...