I’m Sorry, Sterling

Poet RM Vaughan muses on his relationship to 50s film noir tough guy hunk Sterling Hayden, and why he cannot make his life more like a 50s film noir masterpiece. Created by video/internet artist Jared Mitchell, the film inserts Vaughan into the rain-dappled, shadowed and dreamy world of film noir – turning the poet into Hayden’s moll, lover, and dumb broad. A film about living your life “in the right movie,” queer projection onto mainstream cinema, and the collision of fantasy and reality.

Film Maker
Vaughan, RM
Year
2009
Country
Canada
Length
4
Category
art & artists, comedy, film studies, found footage, history, LGBTQ, media studies, Mental Health, Portraits, sexuality
Genre
Animation, experimental, narrative, queer