Birder gay film

Keep up with our community! The film opens with Kristian fishing on a boat with another man, David Sachs (Miles Crawford). In one scene, it appears he might off someone, but something happens that shifts his intentions. Birder is a gay thriller about Kristian Brooks (Michael Emery), a dangerous loner who gets his kicks murdering people as he has sex with them.

Film Review Birder is : A bird watcher, Kristian Brooks, invades a nude queer campground on a remote lake in New Hampshire

The two men have an exchange that could be read as friendly or fiendly, but the film fails to explore the possibilities. As Kristian, Michael Emery gives a layered performance, equally powerful and vulnerable in his nudity and delivering his lines with a hint of humor or menace sometimes both at once as the situation deserves.

Dushku creates a hothouse atmosphere, albeit outdoors, in this sex positive environment. The way the queer men express their gay so, well, nakedly, is admirable, even if the sex and nudity is more homoerotic than erotic.

Instead, Kristian focuses his attention on David Miles Crawforda married father staying at his nearby film house who invites Kristian to go fishing early one morning. The murders are mostly bloodless — save one scene involving a pair of homophobes Kristian encounters — but they also feel slack.

He goes back to his tent and finds Henley Chris Colon waiting for him hoping to have sex. Their tryst ends abruptly as Kristian strangles this stranger. The supporting cast, however, are uneven with the actors who have the briefest screen time — Chris Colon as Henley, Paul Victor as Garreth and Miles Crawford as David — standing out.

He also projects an innocence at times that may fool the folks Kristian encounters, but he winks at the audience, who know he is no angel. And it is not long before he goes off comics gay Corban Uki Pavlovic to have sex.

The sex seems to be more of the focus here, and the film critiques how gay men interact, especially when naked. The 28th Annual Seattle Queer Film Festival runs October (in-person) and October (virtual) in venues in Capitol Hill and Columbia City, with virtual reach including Oregon, Idaho, and.

It is suggested that Kristian may have disposed of a body before he heads off to Lotus Cove, a clothing optional campsite in the Granite State. Give credit to the ensemble cast — save the shy Czerwonko and DuBois — who get naked early and often.

Michael Emery as Kristian and David J. On the mention of the film’s sexual content, Birder depicts the act with a graphic realism, even if the ensemble cast are all particularly attractive and in shape; it’s clearly a film made for the gays’ gaze.

If only the birder of the film had been up to that level. The handsome newbie, Kristian, immediately turns heads when he shows up unencumbered.

Sign up. Skip to content. It might have been more involving if Kristian had a trigger for his crimes, but the filmmakers probably liked the ambiguity. He kills David and burns his clothes in a campfire.