#alecsecareanu

This brilliant God's Own Country fanart is by creator artofdillon, a freelance illustrator whose work can be found at www.dillonchen.com. He is amazing.

I, once again, cannot tell if this is digital art or not but it really feels like it captures that moment in the film. I've spoken about how particular I am about representational realistic art depicting them. I know, okay.

But, look: IF your art is realistic as opposed to, say, another style: manga, illustration, pop, abstract, SURREALIST, pick an art style, that is one set of expectations and elements. If you draw or paint a picture that is recognizably them in a real setting with depth and perspective, OR just a study of one aspect of them: a hand or a profile, those are specific elements and present specific expectations. One of those expectations to me is that they look like themselves. That when you see them you think, 'there are Johnny and Gheorghe.' And if I don't think that when I see an art piece, no matter how pristine the technique, then it's kind of a miss for me?

Which tl;dr THIS IS SO GOOD. The artistic license with the cloudy sky looking background behind the tub really works for me because I read it as symbolism for the shift that has happened between Johnny and Gheorghe. The open sky to how open Johnny has to be to sit in the bath with his boyfriend; how there's no way the Johnny at the start of the film would be open to this. I love Johnny's hand and his cheekbones and the slope of Gheorghe's back.

And can I say (I always go on about really good realistic art) how masterful the foreshortening of Gheorghe's arm holding the cigarette is? Foreshortening is to create the illusion of an object receding strongly into the distance or background. Foreshortening is a BIIIIIIITCH, gente. If you do it wrong the painting looks all janky and like the person has a broken limb or something weird. This is excellently rendered.

So thank you to artofdillon for sharing this with us!

Truly a lovely piece.

"You're a freak"

"So are you"

"Faggot"

I believe this is from around 2010 and the angle is odd but how adorable he looks here. He's got his curls all in his face and his long lanky legs and his cigarette held between his index and forefinger and that casual smile is just too much.

I think he has always had a lovely hollow of his throat.

So lovely twenty-six-ish Alec wishes you a great day!

This is one of my favorite scenes in a film full of them.

Just the intimacy and humor here and how far Johnny had to go to be able to just have this with Gheorghe: a joking conversation, nude in bed, chatting after, as one does.

This image of Alec at SFR, Romanian Film Evenings Festival in 2018, was taken by Elvis Petrea and found by the resourceful Sheeps Electric!

Isn't his hair glorious?

SFR, has taken place in Moldova since 2010 and began at the initiative of the Association of Student Journalists from Iași. Since 2018, the SFR festival is organized by the ARTIS Association. The festival transforms Moldova into a center of film and cinema and focuses on Romanian actors, directors, screenwriters and film critics. The festival is known for the practice of opening a dialogue and meeting with the audience to foster interactive feedback between viewers and creators.