A Nebraska kid chases Hollywood, ends up filming something way more intimate.
In 2008, 24 year old Ryan Sullivan set out from his Nebraska hometown with Hollywood aspirations. Instead he found himself in San Francisco, "the cool gray city of love," making a documentary about a porn company.
Direction
Sullivan inserts himself into his own messy subject.
Production
Scrappy 2008 San Francisco captured in grainy intimacy.
Director
Ryan Sullivan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references both San Francisco as an 'island' of liberalism and the isolation of outsider identity.
Damon Dogg and Jessy Karson were real figures in 2000s San Francisco's fetish porn scene, making this accidental ethnography.
US
