Savage Men finds Michel Auder turning his incisive gaze on masculinity as a fragile, overperformed script. Filming friends Gary Indiana and former Warhol superstar Louis Waldon at moments of private desperation, Auder reveals manhood as an anxious performance staged for the camera and for oneself. Their enacted despair becomes a search for feeling—an attempt to break through the numbness that blurs intimacy with hierarchy.
