AVERSION
For the sake of creativity alone, I created another poster for the film that was more commercial and inclusive of the film’s characters.
Boris Petrenko, the actor who embodied the role of the film’s central character who undergoes conversion therapy, was brilliant in bringing a three-dimensionality to the role which made one truly regret any harm that befalls him.
© 2018
Aversion was the first gay film that I ever created. The film’s inspiration came from conversion therapy, the heinous practice used by usually-religious conservatives to attempt to convert homosexuals into heterosexuals.
The film was built on the premise of what is considered the “traditional family dynamic”. In other words, the view is that a family cannot be considered a family if it isn’t headed by a mother and a father. This premise was embodied in the poster’s central image: a picture of a mother, father, and child, silhouetted as a handprint.
I commissioned the image as a painting from an artist friend, Daniel Hartwell, which was then featured in the film.
© 2018
