Press Notes  60 minutes   Travis Mathews James Franco   Mickey
Cottrell   Jeffrey Winter  Inspired by the rumored-to-be-lost 40
minutes of gay S&M footage from the controversial film,
“Cruising,” filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews explore
the limits of sexual and creative freedom over their frenzied
single day of production.     James Franco  Travis Mathews One
of the first things that James and I ever talked about was gay
marriage. We shared a concern that the race toward equality was
also a race of straightening out the queer kinks, of erasing
subcultures in favor of assimilation. It’s a conversation
captured in the opening scene of the film, one that “helps
inform choices” as I say. In a lot of ways this became the
foundation of the film, this idea that we’d make a queer film
about a gay subculture that was as much a celebration of as it
was an agitator. Yes, there is gay sex in the film, but it’s the
slippery way in which boundaries and definitions are in constant
flux that really make it a queer