Video

The Jungle Boy

John Greyson

1985, 15:30 minutes, colour, English

TAPECODE 021.06

While a TV journalist examines the contradictory homo-eroticism and imperialism of a film version of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book her husband confronts the politics of fantasy and washroom sex. A pseudo narrative whose disperate threads unite in the final "documentary" sequence.

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