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The Other Database...

We do strive to include every film that has been screened at the LGBT film festivals around the world.

Life does become a little more difficult when they [the films] don’t have an IMDb entry...therefore, they end up here...films in dire need of publicity/promotion/marketing...

1960s - UPDATED: July 2022

 

62nd Birthday Footage (ca. 1962)

Kate Vogel

1962

Footage from the birthday of the wonderful Bet Van Beeran, who was an 'out' lesbian in Amsterdam from the 1920s onwards.

Alienation 1966
Alienation

Kang-Chien Chiu

1966

 Taiwan / 6 mins
This experimental short features a caterpillar crawling on a wall, a naked man seemingly masturbating, poetic captions and stills of crucifixion-like poses. Considered lost for 52 years, Alienation was found and restored in 2019. 

Bath Penelope Spheeris
Bath

Penelope Spheeris

1969

USA / 6 mins
Shooting on 16mm, Spheeris’s camera observes a woman taking a bath, and taking her time. Her nakedness is celebrated without being eroticised.

Boy and Crows

Penelope Spheeris

1968

USA
A boy enjoys the age-old pleasure of making a wish on a dandelion.

Epilogue / Siam

Tom Chomont

1968

USA / 6 mins
Filmmaker and curator Jim Hubbard states, “Chomont’s films offer a lyric depiction of the ordinary world.” Here, Chomont presents two portraits–one warm, and one cold.

Klitclique: In Pairs / KLITCLIQUE : Zu zweit 

Anna Spanlang

1968

Austria / 2 mins
From Laurel and Hardy, to Batman and Robin, Anna Spanlangs video clip uses imagery of famous pairs as the background for this obituary to the phallocracy and its male homosocial structure… “Women In” is an invitation to fight perceptions in the mainstream media and well as perceiving the art of two women as merely decorative accessories.

Shit

Penelope Spheeris

1969

A man who’s slipped on shit lies in the gutter, waiting for help.

Synthesis

Penelope Spheeris

1968

Somewhere in space, or time, some kind of alien entity surveys humanity.

The Blue Rose

Chuck Renslow

1965

USA / 12 mins
This poetic film is an extension of Renslow's male physique photography of the period. By today's standards, this film is quite tame, however in 1965 films like this remained in a legal grey area, barely escaping obscenity laws. The film stars Steve Kotis as the Grecian shepherd lad, and Ralph Kleiner who is enchanted by the blue rose.

The National Rehabilitation Center

Penelope Spheeris

1969

America’s McCarran Act is designed to control “subversive activity”. It allows the US government to jail dissidents – including communist sympathisers, draft dodgers and student activists – with little to no pretext. With this scarily realistic – and scarily prescient – mockumentary, Spheeris presents a world where McCarran is enforced, and exploited.

The Roman Springs on Mr. Stone

Connie B. de Mille (aka Ray Harrison)

1963

USA / 19 mins
A drag take-off on The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, the 1961 feature film directed by José Quintero, based on the homonymous 1950 novel by Tennessee Williams, the Gay Girls Riding Club’s The Roman Springs on Mr. Stone portrays a decaying actress who reaches out to the services of a Madame in order to hire a male escort, the same way Vivien Leigh’s character gets involved with a young Italian, following the death of her husband, in Rome.

The Spy On The Fly
The Spy on the Fly

Ray Harrison

1967

USA / 43 mins
An early James Bond drag parody.

What Really Happened To Baby Jane
What Really Happened to Baby Jane

Connie B. de Mille (aka Ray Harrison)

1963

USA / 31 mins
An early drag parody of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?
Trailer… https://youtu.be/OoCZcB8zp6E