Interior. Leather Bar.

Actor James Franco and director Travis Mathews star as themselves in a docufiction that is a reminder of a notorious case of censorship. In 1980, William Friedkin had to accept a cut of forty minutes to his film Cruising. In later video and DVD releases, these scenes of explicit homosexual action remained missing.
The purpose of Interior. Leather Bar. is not a perfect reconstruction, but rather to raise the issue of Hollywood’s homophobia and American attitudes towards sexual politics in general. This attempt at re-imagination questions the concept of normalcy and alerts us to unspoken taboos. The undercover actions of Al Pacino, who in Cruising is hunting a serial killer in New York’s gay scene, become an appeal for self-investigation.
On another level, the film is also a fine-tuned documentary about the process of making a film and the dynamics of finding a comfortable position in another person’s story. Screened together with Tiger Morse.