it nice that these three young director have produce film with good production value and decent acting . there some good work here . unfortunately they suffer from what afflict much of modern gay cinema while recycled plot and too familiar device ( i have see the pool set way too many time in gay male film ) and hackneyed script . most egregious of all be dorothy whose preposterous premise be that a cute young guy will have trouble get lay in nyc due to a shortage of identifiable availabe gay guy in his vicinity . in term of cinema these short play like tacky little gay afterschool special . not a lot of imagination in their writing or execution while basically they follow a point and shoot and shot or reaction shot or master shot convention which become painfully dull after five or so minute . there hope for queer cinema in the work of todd haynes and sadie benning and the late and great marlon riggs . but not here . these film be incredibly middlebrow and singularly whitebread and their value basically pander to a gay bourgeois sensibility . which be probably why they play so well at gay film festival .