Two loners (Ruben Bansie-Snellman, Pepper Fajans) form a fragile connection while painting their way through the Pacific Northwest.
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Gay-tinged drama about two drifters who try to communicate with each other while painting the Pacific Northwest.
Adrift in a lush, nocturnal urban landscape, Nick is a post-modern urban hero asserting his anarchistic agenda on the endless maze of virgin exterior walls that comprise downtown Seattle and Portland. For writer/director Bolton’s lonely “tagger” protagonist, the vast wall surfaces of deserted alleys and trainyards are at once a daunting symbol of capitalist oppression and a texturally rich, seamless tableau ripe for exploitation to amplify his artistic dialectic of anger and rebellion. His own virtually anonymous existence seemingly only secondary to the painted surfaces and “rupture the system” manifesto which more poignantly evidence his presence, Nick’s prodigious solo graffiti output is interrupted by friendship with another young tagger. Their communication begins as less verbal than a kind of shared graphic tour de force; their enormous collaborative graffiti murals appear to emerge as the unmistakable offspring of their kindred spirit. But eventually their assumptions about one…
About director:
From 2002–2004 Bolton was the driving force behind Other Voices Film Fund, which he created to assist independent filmmakers in producing and distributing their work. Bolton’s feature-film debut, EBAN AND CHARLEY (2000), won Best Dramatic Feature at the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. His second feature, THE GRAFFITI ART IST (2004) premiered at Berlinale Panorama, and his third feature, DREAM BOY (2008), had its world premiere at the Berlinale, and won the Grand Jury Award for Best screenplay at Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles and the award for Best Feature Film at the Iris Prize Festival in Cardiff.
