Travis Mathews

One of the sharpest, best surprises of the festival, “Interior. Leather Bar.” is a serious yet playful hourlong deconstruction of the representation of homosexuality as viewed through the prism of “Cruising”

These film-makers seek to describe the experience of being queer today through stories that resonate beyond that context.

I Want Your Love is an intense, intimate film with a fantastic soundtrack and stunning visual beauty that will haunt you long after the final scene.

Intimate, sexy and unflinchingly honest, I Want Your Love is a bold film with rare insight into the uncensored lives of a generation of gay men

A filmmaker of refreshing honesty, Travis Mathews is a new voice giving queer cinema a much needed injection of emotional intimacy.

If porn is asocial, this is fully social erotica for libidos that are patient and discerning.

Brown Bunny, Shortbus, every single Lars von Trier film. Yes, unsimulated sex has been an art-flick staple for decades, but never has it been captured with as much intimate awkwardness as in I Want Your Love.

"In Their Room is a beautifully shot, deeply intimate, voyeuristically tantalizing, view inside the minds, and bedrooms, of young gay men in San Francisco. Travis Mathews has a kind and empathetic eye as a filmmaker, and he’s just the kind of new voice we need to tell our stories."

"I Want Your Love bristles with eroticism and emotional honesty. Jesse Metzger and Brenden Gregory are not typical porn stars. They’re scruffy, tattooed indie guys, charming and occasionally awkward. The sex is interrupted by laughter, bouts of wrestling, and subtle gestures of negotiation. Certainty never factors into the scene. Seemingly, there is nothing coordinated or choreographed about their actions. "

"Mathews is pushing the bar even further by blurring the lines between narrative and pornographic language."