I Have Two Dads Too (2022)

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The bulk of the content of my work comes from my personal life experience. I often hold a mirror to popular culture as I examine my life and discover that film is magic, and life as it is on screen is unattainable. As I watched Paris, Texas (1984, dir. Wim Wenders) for the first time, a neo-western about the arrival of a no-longer-missing father figure back into his child’s life, I started to think about this character who was raised by two fathers. As a child whose parents are divorced, and then remarried, I too have two fathers, too, and grappling with that lesser-than-conventional idea, much as Hunter does, I discover that it is truly wonderful.