"Director: Travis Mathews"

• I Want Your Love | DVD | (22/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The hotly anticipated debut feature film from director Travis Mathews (interior. leather bar) is a bold and unflinching look at gay relationships among a group of San Francisco friends which includes scenes of real sex striking controversy amongst global film censors including Australia where the film was banned in 2013. After a decade of living in San Francisco Jesse is forced to move back to his Midwestern roots because he can no longer afford the city. On his final night in the city friends and ex-lovers gather for a going away party that promises to heighten Jesse's already bittersweet feelings about leaving into sharper focus. Torn between his creative dreams and the reality of earning a living he's forced to take responsibility by redefining what it means to be an artist a gay man and an adult. Featuring music from 'The Chromatics' I Want Your Love is a passionate and deeply intimate film that dares to capture the uncensored zeitgeist of modern-day San Francisco unlike any film before it.

• Interior. Leather Bar | DVD | (09/12/2013) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (191.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In order to avoid an X rating 40 minutes of gay S&M footage was rumoured to be cut and destroyed from the 1980 film CRUSING starring Al Pacino. Inspired by the mythology of this controversial film filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborate to imagine their own lost footage. Amid the backdrop of a frenzied film set actor Val Lauren reluctantly agrees to take the lead in the film. Val is repeatedly forced to negotiate his boundaries during scenes on and 'off camera ' as unsimulated gay sex happens around him. The film itself is constructed as a play with boundaries remaining queer in subject and form. As much a film about filmmaking as it is about an exploration of sexual and creative freedom interior. Leather bar defies easy categorization. The second feature film from writer/director Travis Mathews (I Want Your Love) interior. Leather bar has been hailed as a fascinating and intriguing film that never takes any simple options and works well in terms of raising provocative issues.' (Screen Daily). Special Features: Interview with James Franco Feast of Stephen - A Short Film by James Franco

• Discreet | DVD | (09/07/2018) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the acclaimed director of I Want Your Love and Interior. Leather Bar comes an eerie and powerful thriller that offers a disturbing insight into the dark heart of Trump s America. Filmmaker Alex lives in a van. He sets up his camera in rural areas in the US, in the no-man s land near highways. During a visit to his mother, she shares with him a well-kept secret from his childhood, a secret that threatens to unravel him. Feeling desperate and unstable, Alex is determined to right the wrongs of his past and, through his confusion and increasingly tenuous grip on reality, confront a looming shadow that he has been running from all his life.