The Look

Performed by Jack Jewers

This is the only short that was put together from found footage, rather than filmed especially, and the only one I decided to narrate myself which does, I confess, make it rather special to me!. The lovely, colourful, joyous shots of Drag Queens United were taken at Amsterdam Pride in 2017 – and what more fabulous harbingers of Ovid’s glorious message could there be? Ovid may have been writing about a very different age to our own, but the message holds as true today as it always has been.
— Jack Jewers, Director

The Romans knew how to have a good time. The Look is an abridged version of ‘Take Care With How You Look,’ a chapter from Ars Amarosa (“The Art of Love”), by the poet Ovid. Its themes of rejecting false nostalgia about the past, and embracing the richness of the modern age, sounded to me like a celebration of inclusivity and tolerance.

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