July 19 to August 6, 2006.
LUCKY NUMBERS focuses primarily on a handful of young gay male sex workers in New York City. In their prime and seduced by a lifestyle of instant gratification, they share an existence defined by a marriage between sex and the illicit. In moving to the big city and compelled by a dream of reinvention, they allow the unfamiliar to take a lead in informing their lives. The innocence with which these young men explore newfound notions of liberty quickly transforms into its own kind of entrapment. Living in a home rule world, they become inevitably hardened by the traffic of their insatiable desires; their newfound dilemma increasingly fueled by claustrophobia and jilted intimacy.
The title of the series refers to the flip side of fortune cookie proverbs found accompanying the all too common take-out diet. LUCKY NUMBERS are gambling numbers, inscribed as the optional route to the tried and true wisdom outlined for the more conventional in nature.
Jules de Niverville
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