Pamela and Ian

Filmed in 16mm black and white in 1970 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Pamela and Ian is a bisexual love story that explores an idea suggested by Alain Robbe-Grillet that characters in a film are born in the beginning and die in the end and have no existence outside of the film. Directed by University of Michigan junior David Greene in and around Ann Arbor. The film was made a year after the Stonewall Riots of 1969. The audience at the premiere of the film in 1971 gasped out loud when Ian and Doug first kissed on screen - so deep was the taboo of homosexuality.