''Interior. Leather Bar.'' is a 2013 American docufiction film, which premiered at the
2013 Sundance Film Festival
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 17, 2013, until January 27, 2013, in Park City, Utah, United States, with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah, Ogden, Utah, and Sundance, Utah.
The festival had 1,830 volunteers.
Films
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Travis Mathews
Travis Mathews (born 1975) is an American director and screenwriter.
, the film stars Franco and Mathews as themselves working on a film project which reimagines and attempts to recreate the 40 minutes of deleted and lost sexually explicit footage from the controversial 1980 film '' Cruising''. The film's cast also includes Val Lauren, Christian Patrick, Brenden Gregory, Brad Roberge, Colin Chavez,
Michael Lannan
Michael Lannan is an American screenwriter and producer. He is known as a creator and producer of the HBO series '' Looking''."Gay Film Auteur Travis Mathews Talks Interior. Leather Bar." '' Filmmaker'', January 19, 2013. Instead, it uses the idea of recreating the footage as a plot point to explore the creative and ethical questions arising from the process of trying to make such a film. It depicts issues such as the actors' level of comfort or discomfort with the material, the conflict between creative freedom and censorship, and the ways in which the cinematic representation of LGBT issues and people has evolved since ''Cruising'' was originally released in 1980. One of the main narrative threads of the film is the confusion of several participants over why James Franco would want to be involved in such a project in the first place.
Mathews has stated in interviews that one aspect of the original film's production that interested him was the contrast between analyses which suggest that the deleted footage constituted homophobic propaganda, and those which suggest that it was more documentary in nature."Cruising With Travis Mathews: The Nightcharm Interview" ''Nightcharm'', March 9, 2013.