Filmmaker Elliot Tuttle talks to Queerguru about his controversial debut movie BLUE FILM

Filmmaker Elliot Tuttle talks to QUEERGURU about his critically acclaimed debut film BLUE FILM. In it, he uses the color (Yves Klein blue) to signify anything that was culturally taboo, and not just the pornographic reference in the telling of his contentious story.

This psychological drama begins with Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore), a Los Angeles “cam-boy” who specializes in financial humiliation and domination. Slightly deranged, he gets off on piling on the verbal abuse to his online fans but agrees to accept a ‘client’ who’s an older man wearing a mask (Reed Birney). However, the power struggle between the two men takes a sharp turn when Aaron whips off the masks to reveal he is one of Aaron’s ex-middle school teachers, hell-bent on fulfilling. a fantasy he has dreamed about for years. Claiming he doesn’t want a sexual experience, but simply the chance to “get to know” each other and achieve a kind of closure in his old age, …..no spoilers here. The timing of the movie adds to its controversy in this political climate, where the country is led by a convicted pedophile (!) and somehow it adds another dimension to that conversation. Aside from the very questionable morals of the story, Tuttle’s creative grip and inspired direction add him to the list of new queer filmmakers, prepared to push the envelope …. and whose next work we will wait for eagerlyBLUE FILM is now available on VOD