www.gimmevigor.com by Wil Lin
Official Film Selection
VCI Film Festival, Los Angeles
New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
PlanetOut.com Queer Movie Shorts Awards -
Finalist
Outfest-Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film
Festival
Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film
Festival
2000 Seoul International Queer Film and
Video Festival
IMAGEOUT Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film
and Video Festival
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Cinematexas 5 - Asian American Shorts
Program
Reeling 2000: Chicago Lesbian and Gay
International Film Festival
MIX 2000: New York Lesbian and Gay
Experimental Film/Video festival
Festival Mix Brasil
Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney Australia
Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
MIX MEXICO 2001
2001 Chicago Asian American Showcase
Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film + Video
Festival
Intermedia Arts / Flaming Film Festival,
Minneapolis
Houston Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
15th International Lebian and Gay Film
Festival, MILANO > BOLOGNA
Philadelphia International Lesbian and Gay
Video and Film Festival
Vancouver Queer Film & Video Film
Festival
Making Scenes - Ottawa Queer Film &
Video Festival
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Washington D.C.11th International Gay
& Lesbian Film Festival
VinoKino 2001 Lesbo - ja homoelokuvan
Festivaali, Turku
Queer Format - LesBiSchwules Filmfestival,
Chemnitz Germany
Biannual Lesbian and Gay Film Festival of
Regina, Canada
DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival
VinoKino 2004 Toisin Katsoen Lesbo - ja
homoelokuvan festivaali, Helsinki
guileless guile (1999)
3 minutes 10 seconds
Wil Lin [writer, director, animator]
Kurt Weill [composer]
Bertolt Brecht [lyrics]
Lotte Lenya [vocals]
Production Notes:
In the midst of enduring intolerable
lower-back pain (induced by a horrid falling out with my
college best friend* whom I had a hopeless crush on), I busted
through animating this short about a love triangle in under six
weeks so I can tell myself I’m still hot-shit while
patting myself on the back for attempting to do a conventional
narrative.
The film performed well and was selected
by a number of film festivals but I wasn’t especially
proud of it. I knew I used the gay subtext in the film to
elicit laughter from straight viewers, while pandering to gay
audiences by purposely designing one of my characters to look
like a drawing by Tom of Finland.
I felt both like a traitor and a hypocrite, but it was a
good ego boost for me, nevertheless. Since all the design work
on the film were done during Monica Lewinski’s media
blitz subsequent to Bill Clinton’s impeachment hearings,
by osmosis I styled the female lead’s hair after
Monica’s.
By the time this short hit the film
festival circuit I had already undergone a microdisectomy on my
spine to take care of my back pain and I was on the rebound!
At Outfest this film was programmed to precede the world
premiere of a (reportedly) sexually explicit gay feature titled
“Burlesk King” by a well-established Filipino film
director, which I found both incredibly flattering and
profoundly mortifying.
*I don’t know if he’d call me his best
friend.