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The short film was made from material shot for a Levi’s commercial on which Gus Van Sant was given complete freedom. Van Sant delivered the ad, and separately made his own short film; one that feels complete in and unto itself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Has the kind of sumptuous and suggestive homosocial atmosphere found in Y Tu Mamá También’s early moments and, obviously, in a more ponderous fashion, My Own Private Idaho. Really fabulous, meandering stuff.
I wonder to what extent the pastoral expanse here is figured as queerness’s horizon, the kind of frontier narratives extended to “the open road” working their way into the material of location shooting here, Badlands by way of Equation to an Unknown. There’s also a stark contrast between the short’s moments of obscuring of its figures and suggestive fragments of them in closer views, a kind of playful fort-da with the regime of visuality that typically dominates gay male erotic spectacle and its depictions of the youthful male body.…
Essentially perfect? Didn't like whenever any of them opened their mouths but fuck me Harris Savides was some kind of god; this is by far one of the best looking things I've ever seen in my life.
Four Boys in a Volvo: Picture masculinity squeezed into the backseat of a Volvo, where eye contact feels more like a dare than a gesture of connection.
For Van Sant, silence is the statement, and tension is the punchline. Four boys, one Volvo, and all the weight of adolescent confusion wrapped into four minutes. If there’s a message, it’s that intimacy doesn’t need words to feel substantial.In Van Sant’s hands, masculinity becomes a quiet art form, proving that what’s left unsaid often speaks volumes.
Minimalist? Yes. Mundane? Hardly. Van Sant’s Volvo becomes a postmodern capsule, borrowing from Baudrillard’s hyperreality to blur the lines between real life and the art of doing absolutely nothing with feeling.By grounding us in…