''Pig and Bear'' is an experimental short film by

Royce Vavrek Royce Vavrek is a Canadian-born Brooklyn-based librettist, playwright, dance scenarist, musical theatre writer and filmmaker known for his collaborations with composers David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Mikael Karlsson (composer), Mikael Karlsson, ...

, internationally screened throughout North America in 2008. Created while Vavrek was attending the

Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, a division of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University, is a film school located in Montreal, Quebec. Informally known as MHSoC, the school accepts around 250 students a year for programs in animation ...

Concordia University Concordia University () is a Public university, public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College (Montreal), Loyola College and Sir George Williams Universit ...

, the film was distributed across the United States and Canada as part of

North Country Cinema North Country Cinema is a Canadian media arts collective based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The company was founded in 2005 by filmmakers Alexander Carson, Nicholas Martin, and Kyle Thomas, who met at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Conco ...

's TELEGRAMS from the New Canadian Cinema. The film, a parody of 1970s

pornography Pornography (colloquially called porn or porno) is Sexual suggestiveness, sexually suggestive material, such as a picture, video, text, or audio, intended for sexual arousal. Made for consumption by adults, pornographic depictions have evolv ...

, follows a sexual encounter between two men dressed up in furry costumes who copulate in a variety of positions until the final shot of

ejaculation Ejaculation is the discharge of semen (the ''ejaculate''; normally containing sperm) from the penis through the urethra. It is the final stage and natural objective of male sexual stimulation, and an essential component of natural conception. ...

. In his review for nytheatre.com, Martin Denton called the film "quite apt, with its soundtracklessness making it feel both subversive and seedy at the same time)"FRIGID Festival 2008 Reviews
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