Out Filmmaker On New Series “Adam in Fragments”
therainbowtimesmass.comOut Filmmaker Omar Salas Zamora discusses “Adam in Fragments”, streaming this month on DekkooBy: Brian Hug/Special to TRTIn the provocative, gritty drama, Adam in Fragments, a young man returns to his former life as a sex worker where he quickly re-engages with his seedy and often dangerous male clients.
All appears status quo until his urge to guide a young and naïve aspiring adult film starlet and protect her from their terrorizing handler, Felix, triggers a series of events that send violent ripples through the Los Angeles underground sex trade.The series starring emerging young actors Beau Swartz, Keiva Bradley, and Ryan Ruffing premieres on the gay streaming service Dekkoo on November 17.“Most television shows about sex work either glorify the trade or exploit it,” out filmmaker Omar Salas Zamora explains.Salas Zamora wrote and directed the series with Calvin Picou.“In Adam in Fragments, we aim to examine the profession, not by sensationalizing it, but through exploring the main character and his interactions with drug dealers and johns,” said the director.We spoke with the filmmaker on set in Los Angeles. Q: How true-to-life is Adam in Fragments?“Adam in Fragments” posterOmar Salas Zamora: Santa Monica Boulevard as a hub for sex work is pretty much extinct today.
The sex industry has gone completely digital. It’s done through location-based apps. That’s great for the safety of sex workers but it is not exactly cinematic to look at cell phone screens so we leaned into our own reality.Q: Interesting.
So, it takes place in modern-day Los Angeles, but as if we were back in the 1990s.A: Yes, maybe even earlier. Adam in Fragments is a hustler’s odyssey with a grim 70s cinema aesthetic.
