While looking at random cocks on AZ Nude Men, I came across Sun in My Mouth, with Artem Shcherbakov as a skinny, dissolute-looking twink who takes off his clothes on the beach while looking depressed, and then returns to his empty apartment to j/o on the phone while looking depressed. Photos after the break
Black and white, extremely washed out, amateurish, with random close-ups of body parts and nonsequiter images. It looked like one of those 1960s "stag films," or one of the early Gay Liberation movies like A Very Natural Thing. But it is dated 2010.
Extremely mysterious. Russia is a puritanical country. How was it even permitted? 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, takes off his clothes, broods, goes home to an empty apartment, and beats off with a phone sex operator.
Is it even Russian? Jessica Yatrovsky has nothing else listed on the IMDB. The phone sex operator is played by Andrew Yang -- not a Russian name.
A man. So this is a gay film? So Artem is depressed 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.
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 Brian in 2021 and now lives in Washington DC.
More after the break. Caution: Explicit.
Artem has an Instagram with 2,454 followers. He goes to Rehoboth Pride, visits Puerto Vallerta and Montreal, gets the cover of Next. goes to a jock party at the Albatross, works as a bartender, has tickets to Hamilton and the opera.
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 gender identity." She contributes to East New York Boys and has two books, I Heart Boy and I Heart Girls
No big mystery after all. Effervescent New York bartender/psychology major Artem was hired to star in Jessica Yatrovsky's experimental film. He rode the subway, got naked, did a j/o session, and went on with his life.
The title, Sun in My Mouth, was not a Russian expression. It was song by someone I never heard of, an Icelandic singer named Bjork:
I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air
Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness
In the sleeping curves of my body
But you can see from the j/o scene how it would be easy to mistake this for an amateur stag film from the 1970s. Except for the cell phone.
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