The Men
Director Charles Fairbanks
Countries United States
Duration 3 min
Synopsis
A man struggles for something we can't comprehend. We see static at intervals, extra arms; the camera zooms in, rolls out. We see another t-shirt on another torso: it's ours, implicitly the viewer's body, as the video embodies - quite literally - a man's point of view. Hands clasp; arms wrap around a neck; silence. Is this a choke or a hug? The Men is a document of the fighter's perspective in submission wrestling: an immersive meditation on intimacy and violence.
A man struggles for something we can't comprehend. We see static at intervals, extra arms; the camera zooms in, rolls out. We see another t-shirt on another torso: it's ours, implicitly the viewer's body, as the video embodies - quite literally - a man's point of view. Hands clasp; arms wrap around a neck; silence. Is this a choke or a hug? The Men is a document of the fighter's perspective in submission wrestling: an immersive meditation on intimacy and violence.