John Cameron Mitchell’s SHORTBUS explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality.
Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, SHORTBUS tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh, and imperatives of the heart.
Learn more about SHORTBUS at https://shortbus.oscilloscope.net/
- Written and Directed: John Cameron Mitchell
- Cast: Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, PJ Deboy, Raphael Barker, Peter Stickles, Jay Brannan, Justin Vivian Bond
- Produced by: Howard Gertler, Tim Perell, John Cameron Mitchell
- Distributor: Oscilloscope Laboratories
- Runtime: 101 minutes
- Original World Premiere: 2006 Cannes Film Festival – Official Selection
Opens in New York at the IFC Center on Wednesday, January 26th
Los Angeles Special Screenings at The Nuart on January 18th and 19th, followed by additional LA engagements this winter.
Theatrical screenings in select cities nationwide to follow
