A Song Of Love (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #23 extract: A Song Of Love (1950)

This is a short film I've seen twice now. On the first watch, I didn't know what to say; this is a film about gay men in prison who communicate in strange ways (masturbation seems to be one of them) and dream of escaping whilst being spied upon and abused by a guard. 

On the second watch, I'm still a bit lost for words. There is certainly a commentary on love and communication, and this is clearly centred around the suppression of homosexuality, but the abstract elements of this narrative didn't strike me with much more than implications of desperation. This is shot very well and the sound design is quite immersive, but the significance of A Song Of Love seems to be implied by its censorship and graphic depictions of homosexuality in 1950. 

If any of this interests you, this may be worth watching.