"Sun in My Mouth": Adult man well over legal age rides the subway, goes to the beach, does some other stuff

 

Blogger keeps putting my stuff behind "sensitive content" warnings, but I have no idea why.  Is it because I said g*y, because I referred to an adult man as a b*y, because I said something bad about Russia, or because I used a term which sometimes refers to a mental disorder?   I'll just change or hide everything.

Link to the other stuff

While looking at random pictures, I came across Sun in My Mouth, with Artem Shcherbakov as an adult man, well over legal age, who goes to the beach while looking sad but not suffering from any mental disorders, and then returns to his empty apartment to do other stuff while still looking sad but not suffering from any mental disorders.

Black and white, extremely washed out, amateurish, with random close-ups of his face and hands and nonsequiter images.  It looked like one of those 1960s amateur films or one of the early G*y Liberation movies like A Very Natural Thing.  But it is dated 2010.

Extremely mysterious.  Russia is a wonderful country that I would never consider criticizing, but it doesn't usually allow this content.  And what is the meaning of "sun in my mouth?"  A Russian proverb?

 According to the IMDB, "It's a film about how we attempt to connect and understand other people by understanding ourselves."

I couldn't find the film itself, but the trailer is very artistic/experimental, black and white.  Artem rides a subway -- wait, those signs are in English -- walks on the beach, broods, goes home to an empty apartment, and does other stuff.

Is it even Russian?  Jessica Yatrovsky has nothing else listed on the IMDB.  The guy he talks to is played by Andrew Yang -- not a Russian name.

A man. So this is a g*y film?  So Artem is sad because he's struggling to come out?  

Artem has only one other acting role listed on the IMDB,  A Four Letter Word, 2007: "hook-up artist Luke considers becoming monogamous" for the "smug and handsome" Stephen (Jesse Archer, Charlie David).  He is listed as Vlad.

His Linkedin says that he is the founder of ROAR Games and Zheeshee in Brooklyn.  Those are all G-rated games.

His Facebook says that he was born in Minsk, Belorussia. He attended Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn and Touro College, where he majored in psychology.  He married someone in 2021 and now lives in Washington DC.

More after the break. 

Artem has an Instagram with 2,454 followers.  He goes to Rehoboth Beach,  visits Puerto Vallerta and Montreal, gets the cover of Next, goes to a party at the Albatross, works as a bartender, has tickets to Hamilton and the opera.

Next is an informational magazine for the g*y community.  It contains no sensitive material. Artem was an adult when he posed there.

By the way, Jessica Yatrovsky is famous enough to rate her own wikipedia page. She's a New York based photographer who explores "the complexity of identity."  She contributes to East New York Adult Men and has two books about identity

No big mystery after all.  Effervescent New York bartender/psychology major Artem was hired to star in Jessica Yatrovsky's experimental film.  Effervescent means "enthusiastic."  

He rode the subway, went home, and went on with his life.

The title, Sun in My Mouth, was not a Russian expression.  It was a song by someone I never heard of, an Icelandic singer named Bjork.

But you can see from the cinematography that it would be easy to mistake this for an amateur film from the 1970s.  Except for the cell phone.

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