{"id":6501,"date":"2015-02-10T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/posturemag.com\/online\/?p=6501"},"modified":"2016-11-11T14:52:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:52:22","slug":"sorry-youre-sad-a-new-web-series-on-lost-opportunities-and-sexual-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/posturemag.com\/online\/sorry-youre-sad-a-new-web-series-on-lost-opportunities-and-sexual-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry You&#8217;re Sad: A new web series that explores lost opportunities and sexual commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author | Winter Mendelson<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"To Eat (Episode 4)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/106981116?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><i>Sorry You\u2019re Sad<\/i>\u00a0is a web series created by Jamison Karon and Yoni Shrira that is\u00a0adapted from the narrative non-fiction novel\u00a0<i>Confessions from my Tiny Black Heart<\/i>. The episodes explore chance encounters and lost opportunities outside of stereotypes and\u00a0queer clich\u00e9s.\u00a0\u00a0I found the series to be delightfully vulnerable and left me rather curious. Jamison was kind enough to give us more information (see below!).<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Tell us\u00a0about how your web series is adapted from the non-fiction novel\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Confessions from my Tiny Black Heart<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The concept was stolen from a guy I dated in high school. He wanted to create\u00a0an autobiographical account chronicling his sexual conquests.\u00a0The idea was to write a chapter for each intimate experience, rename the men, and exploit the stories. Four years later I was sending my own finished manuscript off to publishers. After fruitless efforts to get the novel picked up, I realized it needed to be re-written before moving forward. At that point I was ready for a different project; creating a web series was my way of starting something new without throwing away what I had already created.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your background and what made you want to create this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2013 I graduated with a BFA in Musical Theatre and a minor in Gender and Women\u2019s Studies. I moved to New York with a very real expectation of being on Broadway before the next winter. By the time spring rolled around I was way off-Broadway, scraping for any artistic outlet. My best-friend\u2019s boyfriend, Yonatan Shria (the cinematographer), had just graduated from film school and volunteered to shoot some scenes for my acting reel\u2014he was looking to build his portfolio. Rather than film random scenes, I took the opportunity to create something meaningful, something people could sink their teeth into. After brainstorming for a few weeks, we decided to adapt my unpublished manuscript.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do any of the episodes reflect personal experience for you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, all of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please describe a couple of\u00a0queer clich\u00e9s that you are tired of seeing in the media? What void in the queer community are you trying to fill?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m tired of the community being portrayed as one stereotype; there are so many different types of queer people! The whole\u00a0<i>here queer and fabulous<\/i>\u00a0clich\u00e9 is fun and great, but it\u2019s just a glimpse into the culture. Films like\u00a0<i>Not Another Gay Movie<\/i>\u00a0and series like\u00a0<i>Queer as Folk<\/i>\u00a0were progressive for their time, but the movement is constantly evolving. Now there is room for more depth.\u00a0<i>Sorry You\u2019re Sad<\/i>\u00a0focuses on the real, funny, busted and sad versions of queer life that haven\u2019t been told yet. It is just one queer voice, one that came from my own experiences, but hopefully it will inspire others to tell their own story, and we can work to fill the void together.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Can you give us some further insight on how\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u201cSorry You&#8217;re Sad<\/i><i style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u201d<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0focuses on\u00a0life as an aesthetic rather than a stereotypical gay experience?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to stray away from the typical camp quality that has become so infamous in queer cinema, to focus on the story without the kitsch. The style is more of an artful realism than what you\u2019re used to seeing in queer film\/television. Yoni did a great job with capturing that essence: the opening scene of episode two is raw, unfiltered, which to me makes it beautiful\u2014that\u2019s Yoni\u2019s favorite scene, too. I wanted to take the emphasis away from the series being qualified by its queerness and just tell a story where the main character happens to be gay. Even when marketing the series, I never describe it as queer.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">For additional information and episodes visit <a href=\"www.sorryyouresad.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.sorryyouresad.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author | Winter Mendelson Sorry You\u2019re Sad\u00a0is a web series created by Jamison Karon and Yoni Shrira that is\u00a0adapted from the narrative non-fiction novel\u00a0Confessions from my Tiny Black Heart. The episodes explore chance encounters and lost opportunities outside of stereotypes and\u00a0queer clich\u00e9s.\u00a0\u00a0I found the series to be delightfully vulnerable and left me rather curious. 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