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“A cinematic poem about being in the closet”
A short film that evokes the lived experience of being in the LGBTQ closet via sensual, poetic cinematography. This film presents the main research findings of a cinematic-phenomenological research study featuring in-depth interviews with research participants about their lived experiences of being closeted as sexual minorities. All imagery in the film is derived from research participants’ descriptions of what being in the closet felt like for them personally.
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EN
Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.