Last October Aussie director Tim Marshall won the Iris Prize gay short film festival for his film, Gorilla. However that wasn’t he first short that touched on gay issues. At Iris 2012 his film Battlefield was in competition, and now it’s been released online and you can watch it below (potentially NSFW).

In the film: ‘Two young gay men embark on a one night stand. Both with very different understandings of the situation, they struggle to realise the true connection they long for. ‘Battlefield’ is a raw and honest exploration of the way we look for love in our modern world, and how we often wish, and sometimes convince ourselves, we’ve found it.’

It’s a well made and interesting short which screened at various festivals around the world. It focuses on how we try to make things true just because we want them to be, and how doing that can highlight how far apart we can be – even at our most intimate moments.

The prize at Iris is funding and support to make another film, so it will be interesting to see what Marshall does with that. [Read more…]