Travis Mathews

In Their Room -Ira Sachs

"In Their Room is a beautifully shot, deeply intimate, voyeuristically tantalizing, view inside the minds, and bedrooms, of young gay men in San Francisco. Travis Mathews has a kind and empathetic eye as a filmmaker, and he’s just the kind of new voice we need to tell our stories."

Making Love: The Story of a Sweet, Dirty Movie

"I Want Your Love bristles with eroticism and emotional honesty. Jesse Metzger and Brenden Gregory are not typical porn stars. They’re scruffy, tattooed indie guys, charming and occasionally awkward. The sex is interrupted by laughter, bouts of wrestling, and subtle gestures of negotiation. Certainty never factors into the scene. Seemingly, there is nothing coordinated or choreographed about their actions. "

MUD interviews U.S. filmmaker Travis Mathews

"Mathews is pushing the bar even further by blurring the lines between narrative and pornographic language."

In the Works: Gay Intimacy

"I Want Your Love seems like a natural progression, adding a fictional component while building on the eroticism and playfulness, the intimacy and directness, of Mathews’ previous work.”

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In Their Room - K.M. Soehnlein

"What do guys do when they’re alone in their bedrooms? Travis Mathews managed to find a way in. Behind closed doors with a series of young urban gay guys, what he finds isn’t sensational or even surprising—they nap, listen to music, talk about sex and jack off—but the overall atmosphere is revealing and intimate just the same. Mathews’ camera lingers on the fleeting detail, and his careful editing accumulates into portraits of male vulnerability. When you’re done watching In Their Room, you feel a little bit lucky— you’ve been shown something you wouldn’t have gotten to see otherwise."

The Best Pornographic Gay Hipster Short Film I’ve Ever Seen

“I Want Your Love is remarkably relatable, honest and insightful, and though it works quite well as a stand-alone short - the idea of this turning into a full-length film could be pretty awesome.”

Director Travis Mathews Makes Gay Porn Intimate, Cuddly, Relatable

“It’s impressive to me that it’s scripted, because it does feel so real. You don’t really get the sense that they’re acting”

One for the bedroom (not the office!)

“…a unique move that completely blurs the line between art and porn”

Travis Mathews Gets Our Love

“There’s talk and there’s explicit sex, but there’s also something much more nuanced happening.”