SILK ON SKIN WHILE THE WORLD BURNS (1970)

Shot in Brooklyn in the summer of 2023, amid collective grief and the Canadian forest fires whose smoke blanketed New York, SILK ON SKIN WHILE THE WORLD BURNS was a way for three artists to seek shelter indoors and express feelings of doom, anarchy, and hedonism. With the air thick with pollution and the sun burning red, the film became a cathartic, visceral response to environmental collapse and personal urgency. It explores how queer bodies endure and resist through softness.