Country: USA
Year: 2025
Duration: 11'
Gus and Clark – married, late 30s – would like to apply for a mortgage. Their small but sincere hope leads them to take a newly-mandated medical procedure that claims to "verify" sexuality for legal use. The procedure’s brief but brutal trial yields surprising results, prompting Gus and Clark to question the nature of attraction in their rapidly binarizing world.
Biography
film director
Mar Sudac
(Usa) is an Ashkenazi filmmaker. A graduate of Brown University, he makes films about civic agency in defiance of state repression, blending themes of queer political action with magical realism. He edited the documentary Brainwashed: Sex, Power, Camera (Sundance, Berlinale) and produced films for Cauleen Smith. Their work has screened at the Chicago International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Kortfilm Festivalen, and internationally in art galleries.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Forestbetween (cm, 2023), Two Royals (cm, 2023), Zero, Infinity (cm, 2026).
Declaration
film director
“This film is a liberatory clapback against the use of pseudoscience to surveil citizenship. It is centered around a fraught sexological trial that ostensibly quantifies attraction. Its world-build casts contemporary realities like hospital overcrowding and the recent ‘Real ID’ requirement as touchstones on a road to regulatory overreach. The film is largely composed of static long-takes on 16mm, designed to create a sense of verité that gestures at the frightening credibility of its exaggerated world. The film gradually lampoons its own austere political conceit with black humor and an alternative idea of body horror.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Mar Sudac. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kayla Hoff. EDITING: Achim Mendoza. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Maritza Cruz, Sally Sanghee Bae. MUSIC: Ben Bruker. SOUND: Johann Mendoza, Ethan Zeitman, Morissa Pena. CAST: Brandon Wilson, Cheech Manohar, Marianne Rendon, Alex Blue Davis. PRODUCTION: Bobbie Green, Sayali Upadhye, Trey Sutton for Ten20 Productions, Dusty Films. COPRODUCTION: Achim Mendoza. CONTACT: Mar Sudac thesxtest8@gmail.com
