PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATT LAMBERT
MEAT
Matt Lambert directs a psychosexual short film
Having a mind-numbingly boring workday and/or completely, irrevocably stoned out of your mind? Then feast your eyes on the psychosexual fever dream that is MEAT, a new short film by queer film visionary (and GAYLETTER fave) Matt Lambert. The LA-raised, Berlin-based artist directed the film as promotion for an upcoming 240-hour long (!) experimental theater piece happening at Berlin’s Schaubühne theater in April.
The theater production, directed by Swedish artist Thomas Bo Nilsson and part of the Festival of International New Drama, draws from the story of Luka Magnotta (infamous escort/porn star/cannibalistic serial killer) to create a dialogue between sexual identity and the more sordid corners of the Internet. Lambert’s film does an A+ job of capturing that claustrophobically digital atmosphere in just under four and a half minutes, during which a bleach blonde twink gyrates to a stuttering electronic track in front of a camera at an Internet café. It’s like watching those seamy Cam4-type sites, only filmed in much better lighting. Needless to say, we’re into it.
Nilsson’s theater piece will be live streamed starting on April 3. Check out Lambert’s short film below:
