La Carn

Director: Joan Porcel

Cast: Lluis Garau

A queer performance artist gets dangerously close to a stranger in an online chat room.

Spanish dancer Lluis Garau adapts his own one-man-show of the same name into an electric and erotic nightmare of digital missed connections. Playing a version of himself, Garau is a young dancer with a penchant for trolling Chatroulette until someone interesting, or hot, or both, pops up. The film’s tone switches to something darker when he connects with a masked man who may be behind some targeted murders of gay men in the area. Dancing between the intimacy of dark rooms and the perceived intimacy of theaters, Garau’s central performance is so raw and all-absorbing, it becomes the film's heartbeat as the tension escalates to a fiery finale. (ANNA BOGUTSKAYA)