Homotopia
Directed byEric Stanley
Chris Vargas
Written byEric Stanley
Chris Vargas
Release dates
  • May 19, 2007 (2007-05-19) (Inside/Out Toronto
    Gay and Lesbian Film Festival)
Running time
27 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Homotopia is a 2007 short film by Eric A. Stanley and Chris E. Vargas. The film talks about the politics of gay marriage and assimilation[1] and addresses issues of racism, colonialism, HIV/AIDS, and the State.

Yoshi, the main character, falls in love with someone he meets in a park bathroom while reading Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. Sadly, his new love interest is about to marry another man. Yoshi and his friends decide to interrupt the wedding.[2]

Homotopia stars San Francisco-based performance/visual artist Jason/Joy Fritz, gender illusionist Susan Withans, Kentaro J. Kaneko, who worked with Gay Shame, Ralowe T. Ampu, formerly of Deep Dickollective, and author/activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, also known as Matt Bernstein Sycamore.

A sequel to Homotopia was created eight years later, titled Criminal Queers. The film is a "Prison-Break style comedy," meant as a commentary on the American prison system and its oppression of LGBTQ people.[3]

The film has fewer than fifty ratings on Rotten Tomatoes,[4] a 7.2/10-star rating with 20 reviews on IMDb,[5] and one 2-star rating on Letterboxd.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Stanley, Eric; Vargas, Chris (2007-05-19), Homotopia (Short, Drama), TKRC, retrieved 2022-05-13
  2. ↑ "Film Review: Homotopia and other shorts". qmunicatemagazine.com. 2016-01-30. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  3. ↑ "The Filmmakers Behind 'Criminal Queers' Explain Why "Queer Liberation is Prison Abolition"". In These Times. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  4. ↑ Homotopia, retrieved 2022-05-13
  5. ↑ Stanley, Eric; Vargas, Chris (2007-05-19), Homotopia (Short, Drama), TKRC, retrieved 2022-05-13
  6. ↑ Homotopia (2007), retrieved 2022-05-13


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