From: http://www.sfbg.com/40/18/art_film_sundance.html

Pertinant parts excerpted:

Ride 'em, Sundance

By B. Ruby Rich...


...Another local film, Santa Cruz homeboy Cam Archer's Wild Tigers I
Have Known, set off justifiable buzz as it brilliantly updated the
sort of out-of-sight universe long mined by Harmony Korine. It's no
accident Gus Van Sant signed on as executive producer. Archer, with
his cinematographer Aaron Platt, sketches the contours of queer
subjectivity on the cusp of adolescence. It's like seeing someone
reinvent the traditions of the avant-garde by throwing gender into the
melting pot. Like Brokeback, though, Wild Tigers locates sexuality
within the natural world, replacing the peaks with redwoods. Dreamy
and sexy, transgressive and poetic, Wild Tigers will cause a stir...