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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...

1970s - UPDATED: October 2023

 

7-70 Mm/F1,4

Lluis

1977

Spain
Un realitzador aficionat s'obsessiona amb un bell noi a qui persegueix amb la seva càmera nit i dia. Curtmetratge que reflecteix la recerca incansable de la perfecció i la bellesa per part del cineasta. .

Black Box

Beth B,
Scott B

1979

USA / 20 mins
A terrifying allegory of societal repression, as we follow the plight of an innocent youth abducted and tortured without any culpability.

Bussotti par lui même di Carlo Piccardi

Sylvano Bussotti

1975

Switzerland / 74 mins

Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day 1971

Kate Millett,
Susan Kleckner

1971

USA / 15 mins
Filmed by women, this on-the-street documentation of one of New York’s early Gay Liberation marches is notable for its foregrounding of lesbians in the struggle for sexual freedom.

Fuck You, Santa Claus

Robert Opel

1978

USA / 19 mins
Sometimes the title literally says it all. In this erotic film, one man gets his ultimate Christmas wish.

Glad to be Gay

Tom Robinson

1978

UK / 3 mins – Music Video
Watch...https://youtu.be/zHG2LJGfEdw

Hats Off To Hollywood Penelope Spheeris
Hats Off to Hollywood

Penelope Spheeris

1972

USA / 22 mins
Continuing the story presented in I Don’t Know, this mix of documentary and recreations was decades ahead of its time is challenging audiences assumptions about heteronormality.  

I Was/I Am

Barbara Hammer

1973

USA / 6 mins
One of the first 3 16 mm films made by Barbara Hammer. The filmmaker changes from a damsel in gown and crown to a leather jacket motorcycle dyke. Symbolic references to Maya Deren underscore her inspiration for Hammer.

Maricones Hasta El Final / Aranprunyà

Ramón

1976

Spain
Alfonso de Sierra, Lluis Escribano, Ramón Massa, Ces Martí and Enric Bentz were Els 5 QKs, a group of filmmakers who, in 1975, teamed up to create a unique, avant-garde, transgressive cinema that broke with the social, religious and political conventions of the time, making “fags” (maricones in Spanish; words like gay and homosexual were not much used in those days) the protagonists, the heroes: proud, shameless, above good and evil… Absolute pleasure as identity.

Misunderstanding /
Nieporozumienie

Piotr Majdrowicz

1978

Poland / 20 min
Piotr Majdrowicz’s 1978 film tells the story of a young photographer in love with an athlete he photographs. Forced heterosexuality proved to be a barrier blocking homosexual fulfillment and as such became a sign of the repressive and alienating system of communist Poland.
Watch… here

Still Life with Phrenology Head

Cerith Wyn Evans

1979

UK / 15 mins

Tea Room Scene

Richard J. Silverthorn

1975

USA / 8 mins
A popular USC jock with a doting girlfriend explores the underground male sex network in a university campus bathroom.

The Modern Image

John Maybury

1979

UK / 13 mins

Underground

Peter de Rome

1972

 USA / 11 mins
A trip in the New York subway ends up in a chance sex encounter.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/3sZJGphA-wY

Vindu mot vår tid:
Om homofile

?

1972

Norway / 13 mins
Special screening of excerpts from this NRK-produced documentary shown in January 1973. The documentary consists of two parts, we show Kim Friele in conversation with an NRK journalist where she explains what homosexuality is and entails, and it is striking how little has changed in the argument over the course of 40 years.

 

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