Illya Szilak

Queerskins: A Love Story

Illya Szilak

Michael DeBartolo, Hadley Boyd

A diary found in a box of belongings offers a devoutly Catholic mother living in rural Missouri in the early 1990's a second chance to know Sebastian, the estranged son she has lost to AIDS. In this emotionally charged immersive video experience, visitors intimately witness the tense interactions between the two grieving parents, while taking a magic realist journey down a country road, a memory lane populated with scrapbook artifacts from Sebastian's peripatetic life.

Queerskins: Ark

Illya Szilak, Cyril Tsiboulski

Reading a diary left by the estranged son she has lost to AIDS, a Catholic mother living in rural Missouri finds a way to transcend her self and her grief by imagining him alive and in love.