Seeking Single White Male
Digital video · 2 minutes 20 seconds · Released
Seeking Single White Male is Vivek Shraya’s first short film, a study of a brown body in (queer) white spaces.
Read the essay by Vivek
“Seeking Single White Male: Two Years Later & An Open Letter”
Among my favourites… Self-hatred and shadism, taboo subjects in progressive Indian circles, are bluntly, and literally, turned face-front toward the viewer.
Simply put, I loved this one. Brilliant.
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Screenings
2011
- Rebels WITH a Cause Film Festival · Toronto, ON
- Chicago South Asian Film Festival
- Vancouver Queer Film Festival
- New York Arab & South Asian Short Video Slam
- Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival
- Colour Me DRAGG: Pride 2011 Showcase & Afterparty · Toronto, ON
- Trigger Film Festival · Toronto, ON
- Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival · Calgary, AB
- Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film & Video Festival
- Monitor 7: New South Asian Short Film & Video · Toronto, ON
2012
- Reel Asian International Film Festival · Toronto, ON
- OUT Film Connecticut · Hartford, CT
- Queer City Cinema · Regina, SK
- York University · Toronto, ON
2014
- Disfiguring Identity: Art, Migration and Exile · Surrey, BC