Davo Hardy: Australian filmmaker with a lot of gay roles and a j/o video. Plus his boyfriend's. And his buddies' cocks.

This morning I started my usual circuit of entertainment and beefcake sites, when two gifs popped up on the celebrity penis subreddit: a middle aged man looking very proud of himself as he beats off.  Nice cock, but ruined by the prominent wedding ring. 

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The blurb said that he was David Hardy, an Australian filmmaker. Actually it's Davo Hardy

According to Model Mayhem, he's primarily a life model, with ten years of experience "at some of the most prestigious fine arts colleges around Sydney."  He's 5'9", 176 pounds. 

His profile on the IMDB says that he's "an auteur of confronting and cerebral independent films," "exploring heavy subject matter with deep academic research."

I checked a few of them for gay content.

Boy Toy (2012): Andrew has a small cock, so he asks a urologist about enlargement surgery, with "hilarious results." 

Complex (2014): Two men share an apartment.  One is a nudist.  He specifies that they are heterosexual.

Aaron's Consent (2014): Not consent to gay activity. Aaron has cerebral palsy and profound deafness, and wants a heterosexual relationship.

A Silent Agreement (2017): A stammering writer (Davo) and his profoundly deaf partner (Joshua Seeley).  They are a gay couple, not writing partners. The first film to showcase Auslan, Australian Sign Language.  

Desire/Ability (2023): A man with multiple disabilities (Matthew Archibald, top photo) discusses sexuality and romance. The trailer shows him with his boyfriend (David Charlie).

The j/o scene is from Public Eye (2021): "Children's entertainer Elliot (Davo) falls from grace when his NSFW content circulates online."  There's  no synopsis available, but the movie was filmed during the COVID shutdown, and the trailer shows a lot of people being interviewed.  Plus clips of nude guys, mostly played by regulars in Davo's movies.

Howard (Dirk Nagel, left) sounds his boyfriend. 

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Pain and Glory: An aging director recalls his first crush and his first boyfriend, with nostalgia and nudity

For forty years, Pedro Almodóvar has been giving us raucous, irreverent, sometimes funny glimpses into the sexual and social freedom of post-Franco Spain: Bad Education; Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!; A Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; What Have I Done to Deserve This? He's not exactly a proponent of essentialist gay identity: his gay men are usually there to have affairs with the female focus character, when she's not busy seducing her stepson.  Or maybe she'll seduce her stepson and his boyfriend, or join her sister in having the affair with the gay man.  There will be male nudity, urination, pop culture references, and kitsch. And these aren't comedies. 

Pedro went through similar machinations in his private life, being closeted, then stating that he was bisexual, and finally coming out as gay.  He's been with his partner, Fernando Iglesias, since 2002.

Dolor y gloria, Pain and Glory, is the 74-year old director's swan song, a summary and perhaps a justification of his work, touching on all of his major themes:  "sentimientos, costumbrismo, reencuentros, homosexualidad, sensibilidad, pasión, familia, drogas… "

Almodóvar stand-in Salvador, played by regular star Antonio Banderas, is an aging director, in physical and mental decline.  His chronic pain has kept him from new projects for several years.

Left: A misty memory of Banderas, fully nude in his first film appearance in 1982.

Asked to speak at the restoration of one of his old films, Flavor, he decides to look up the star, Alberto (Asier Etxeandia, left), whom he hasn't seen since the filming.  They had a falling out over Alberto's use of heroin on the set.

While reconciling, and trying heroin himself to ease his chronic pain, he tells the story of his first boyfriend.  

His First Boyfriend:  Director Salvador was in a relationship with Federico, played by Leonardo Sbaraglia, in the 1980s, but ended it due to his heroin use.  

Federico turned out to be one of Almodovar's temporary gay men: he left the "lifestyle" behind, moved to Argentina, married a woman, and had children.

Flavor star Alberto turns this story into a play that draws the attention of the real life Federico.  He returns to Madrid and wants to start the relationship again, but Director Salvador wants to keep the past in the past. 

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