ABOUT

SCRAPS is the culmination of a 10-year journey, largely based on true events and retellings from my own past. Growing up queer in Minnesota made me feel, at times, like an outsider. I didn't always know how to fit in, but I knew how to pretend. This pretending would carry on for years until at age nineteen, I found a community that supported me and allowed me to be my true self.

Directors like Luca Guadagnino, Barry Jenkins, and Stephen Chbosky were able to show me stories so real and fragile, that I was able to step into myself. 

Eventually, I found great frustration by the lack of queer cinema and would search for off-shoot foreign films and some borderline home movies to watch until I felt I had seen it all. 

So to those who are eagerly waiting for the next Call Me By Your Name, Moonlight, or Stand By Me, this one’s for you.

-Ryan Nordin