Auto Biography
A fishing wharf serves as the runway for a sexy, male fashion show, and childhood fantasies are brought to life in this nostalgic and surreal video about growing up gay in a small Newfoundland town. Auto Biography is a world where lesbian mothers dote over their gay sons and old men reminisce about long-ago boyfriends. In Day's humourous inversion of societal values (shot clandestinely in his parent's house), memory is colourfully reconstructed, and dinner dates and pyjama parties take on a whole new meaning.
Awards and mentions
VideoFest Award
Mediopolis Berlin
1995
Credits
Direction
Dennis Day
Screenplay
Dennis Day
Cast
Phillip Black
Marye Barton
Terry Bryant
Bruno Miguel
Ron Perrault
Renald Bourgeois
Original Score
Tom Walsh
Sound
Justine Pimlott
Camera
Kim McNaughton
Translation
Katherine Liberovskaya
Simon Piette
Production
Dennis Day
Technical information
Color
Color
Image format
4:3
Sound
Stereo
Keywords
Personification, Role, Intimacy, Representation, Relation, Sexuality