#arrebato

[Image description: A digital drawing based on Pedro from the film Arrebato. At the bottom of the piece, there's a close-up drawing of Pedro's eyes staring listlessly into the distance, face upturned. The skin around his eyes is red and blotchy. This drawing melds into another drawing of Pedro. He's sitting on a bed and tightly clutching a cluster of grapes close to his face. His mouth is pinching together and a liquid strand falls all, implying that he's eating one. He's looking straight ahead with wide, wild eyes. One of his legs is pulled up in front of him so his arm rests on his knee. To the left, there's a circle that shows Pedro asleep in his bed, bathed in blue light. It looks like a lens, and is coupled with a red light above it, as if a camera. Other circles in the piece are randomly coloured red, specifically Pedro's right eye on the top drawing, one of the grapes in the cluster, and the highlight in his left eye on the bottom drawing. The lineart is a dark blue and alternates between stark shadows and scratchy shading. The background is a bright teal, which contrasts against the more sallow colours used for colouring Pedro.]

Inktober - Day 26 (Camera)

i made these collages with stills from some of my favorite queer films of all time.

there are several favorites that didn't make the cut because they're not sensual enough for this list--those can live one one of my other lists. but this list is dedicated to films i relate to or that i find particularly romantic, sexy, or compelling. most of the films feature explicitly queer couples, and while they don't all end happily, they feel authentic without devolving into trauma porn.

the only films on this list without an explicitly queer romance are 'persona' and 'arrebato' (from the second collage). but their shared themes of obsession and consumption are more relatable than any of the other films to me, and i find the unspoken and untouched desire tantalizing in a way that disgusts me. i paired them with 'the hunger' in the collage because they're the most toxic pairings on the whole list.

Arrebato (Rapture) | Dir: Ivan Zulueta | 1979 | Eusebio Poncela as José Sirgado