ABOUT
In Their Room is about gay men, bedrooms, sex and intimacy. The film
veers into the bedrooms of eight different men where you see them
doing everything from the most banal to the most erotic. Complimenting
the revealing nature of their everyday activities are confessional interviews
about fantasies, turn ons and vulnerabilities. You never leave their
bedrooms, but this is unmistakably San Francisco of the present.
The film was featured to great praise in Butt Magazine, and later won
“best erotic film” at Good Vibration’s Indie Erotic Film competition.
DIRECTOR TRAVIS MATHEWS
I'm a filmmaker in San Francisco who's spent over 10 years in the same
apartment. For about the same amount of time I've been making movies
that have to do with voyeurism and intimacy. Basically, I like to hear people's
secrets. For years I confused this interest as my calling to become a
psychotherapist -I even went to graduate school for it. I've since left therapy
for filmmaking, but the happy consequence is an emerging body of work as
informed by psychology as it is movie watching.
In 2004, I made my first feature documentary, Do I Look Fat?, about gay
men, body image and eating disorders. Like In Their Room, Do I Look Fat?
focuses on a group of diverse gay men bravely revealing intimate parts of
themselves.
As of summer 2010, I've started work on a feature called I Want Your Love,
which builds on the same themes I return to: sex, intimacy, and San Francisco.
