Martin Firrell
Beware of Boys
2021
Anti LGBT+ propaganda of the 1960s often presented homosexuality as a mental illness. It was also not unusual for homosexuality to be conflated with sadism and paedophilia.

In
Beware of Boys
found footage is re-edited to lampoon the idea that homosexuality is a mental disorder.

In the re-edit, the artist reverses the roles of the two main characters so it is the young hitchhiker whose 'illness' leads him to take advantage of a wholly reasonable and friendly driver.
Medium
Found video (b&w, sound)
Duration
1:06 min
Artwork
html text / 630 x 480 px NTSC video
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Acknowledgement
Prelinger Archive
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