www.gimmevigor.com by Wil Lin
Official Film Selection
15th International Lesbian & Gay Film
Festival, MILANO < BOLOGNA
Philadelphia International Lesbian and Gay
Film Festival
Outfest-Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film
Festival
Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film
Festival
Making Scenes - Ottawa Queer Film &
Video Festival
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Montréal International Queer Film +
Video Festival
IMAGEOUT- The Rochester Lesbian & Gay
Film & Video Festival
VinoKino 2001 Lesbo - ja homoelokuvan
Festivaali, Turku
Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney Australia
(February ‘02)
San Francisco International Asian American
Film Festival
Biannual Lesbian and Gay Film Festival of
Regina, Canada
DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival
spent (2001)
2 minutes 15 seconds
Wil Lin [director, animator, narrator]
Mike Gold [writer]
Yoshihiro Sugano [composer]
“Who is the whiny pansy that
did the horrible voice-overs?” said one audience member
within earshot of me at the “Spent” screening at
Outfest 2001.
I had decided to perform the narration on
this film myself because I was too embarassed and lazy to look
for a “real” actor to do the read. On the day
of the recording session I burnt my tongue pretty badly on a
bowl of piping-hot clam chowder, so I had to do about 40 takes
of the entire script all while babying my tongue, hoping to end
up with a decent take that didn’t sound like, well, a
whiny pansy with a lisp.
The narration in the film was excerpted
from an unpublished short story titled “One of My Nights
With You” by Mike Gold, who was an old friend of a
friend. The story is one entry in a litany of diaristic
accounts of Mike’s obsession over his best friend who
flirts with him just for fun, but not for love. The
images used in this short were originally made for an unrelated
project. I thought I could still use the images to
underscore Mike’s writing, which I thought was not only
vividly written, but also impressively honost and candid.
To read the entire text from “One of
My Nights With You,” click here: