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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...

1990s - UPDATED: October 2023

 

 

 

 

 

24th Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

Natalie Williams

1999

USA / 22 mins
This documentary has never been publicly aired on television, or in theaters. Take this opportunity to view what was, and to dream about what still can be. Nat & Michelle lived in Manhattan and went to Michfest almost every summer during their 28 year relationship. This documentary expresses their love for the womyn's community that was created there.
Watch… here

A Boy’s Life
(1996-2018)

Mike Hoolboom

1996

Canada  / 8 mins
1996: the protagonist of this short film (seemingly Hoolboom himself) is a thirty-five-year-old HIV-positive man who, for the past 8 years, has been reflecting on his condition of patient observing the changes which his body is subjected to. And there, where language runs aground, dismissing the images as childish and trivial, a gap begins to opens up where desire creeps in and where life continues to flow.

Choreographic movements, visual rhymes, synesthetic juxtapositions and kaleidoscopic efflorescences manifest on screen until they dilate the image and its alleged sense. Because, if “any man who expresses his true feelings is a drag queen”, all that remains is to try to reconcile with the body, to ensure that his own suffering does not transform it into an object disconnected from his inner self.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/280951680

A nostro gradimento

Nicoletta Nesler, Marilisa Piga

1994

Italy / 32 mins
Cinque persone down intorno ad un tavolo radiofonico raccontano il loro essere down.
Watch… https://youtu.be/jhhT-G8Y6Ps

A Skinny Little Man Attacked Daddy

Vivienne Dick

1994

UK / 23 mins
“The films I make are about my life and the people around me. I want to awaken the fearless self. A Skinny Man Attacked Daddy takes a look at the family and the place where I grew up. So much of what is ‘me’ comes from attitudes, expectations, fears, habits, beliefs that I inherited from my parents (and they in turn from theirs). The video is about separation from the family. My work is to try to know myself – the only way to change inherited patterns.” VD

A Supernatural Premiere

Kevin Kelly

1995

Canada / 6 mins
Memories of the artist’s relationship with his brother, told through clips of 1960s TV shows they enjoyed together.

Absence Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Absence /
Ausenci

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

1998

Mexico / 75 mins
To spy on the consequences of his premeditated absence, a man hides for a long time in the basement of his house and places video cameras and microphones in strategic places. Hermosillo used the digital format to compose an essay on perversity, voyeurism and the labyrinths of the matrimonial home. 

After Morning

Kelly O’Brien

1999

Canada / 5 mins
Things the filmmaker forgot and learned about birth control on her trip to America.

Airport Silke Dunkhorst
Airport

Silke Dunkhorst,
Manuela Kay

1994

Germany / 33 mins
Silke Dunkhorst and Manuela Kay made the no- budget film “Airport” on borrowed S-VHS cameras and with the support of many friends from the Berlin lesbian community in 1994. The idea for this lesbian porn came after a video project on the subject of lesbians, safer sex and HIV. “Airport” was a first in Germany and the mere fact that lesbians have sex at all :-), a sensation. Manuela Kay will introduce the film and show a classic lesbian porn made in San Francisco in the 90s that was the inspiration for “Airport”.

Aku Perempuan dan Lelaki Itu

Aria Kusumadewa

1997

Indonesia / 45 mins

Alphabit Land:
The Backyard Tour Featuring Wigstock 89

John Canalli

1990

USA / 28 mins
John takes his cousin on a tour of his Manhattan neighborhood. A search for the coolest party in town leads them to the annual Wigstock drag festival.

B.U.C.K.LE.

Catherine Gund

1993

USA / 10 mins
Bargain, undress, caress, kiss, lick and entice with the women of New York's legendary Clit Club, which lit up the scene from 1990 to 2002. A lesson in cruising and busting a move, told with humour, affection and intimacy.

Bad Girls

Krista Beinstein

1990

Germany / 30 mins
Auch Krista Beinstein feiert 2019 ihr 30-jähriges Jubiläum als freischaffende Künstlerin und Fotografin. Daher zeigen wir noch einmal ihren Avantgardefilm von 1990: sexuelle Obsession in bizarren Wechselbädern zwischen Minus 10 Grad und glühender Überhitzung.

Bad Teacher's Equation /
Kusatta Kyoushi no Houteishiki

Kazuma Kodaka

1994

Japan / 30 mins
Atsushi Arisawa enrolled at Jougaouka High School in order to reunite with his childhood crush; Ma-chan, who is now the school's nurse. Strangely, Ma-chan's previously sweet personality seems to have radically changed beyond all recognition. Things are even more complicated when Atsushi's friend, Kouji, tries to put the moves on him. Atsushi just wants Ma-chan though, so perhaps if he gets to know the new, adult Ma-chan, he will find he is not so bad after all. But wait a minute...his name isn't Masami, but Masayoshi?

bed

Evie Leder

1999

USA / 14 mins
bed offers a playful new look at female desire and queer sexuality. Raw, edgy and sexy. Stunning black-and-white images of two women making love are juxtaposed with dreamy scenes of city life, illuminating the contrast between public and private life that many women, lesbian in particular, share.A rich soundtrack incorporates original vocals and ambient elements with sexy, funky trip-hop music. “This well-crafted work of art turned me on, made me wet and stimulated my good taste in art.” – Annie Sprinkle

Beyond Queer: Voices From Bohemian New York

Penny Arcade,
Steve Zehentner,
Anna Margarita Albelo

1999

USA / 60 mins
Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the shores of the Lower East Side of New York as a teenager in 1967. After decades in the Downtown art world, Penny’s personal relationships with dozens of outrageous characters, from the world famous to the fascinatingly obscure, led to the creation of the Lower East Side Biography Project, an oral history of New York’s Bohemian culture from the 1950s to the present. These half-hour biographies have broadcast weekly on Time Warner Manhattan Cable Television for 20 years. Beyond Queer is a feature documentary compiled from these television interviews.

Bhangra Jig

Pratibha Parma

1990

UK / 4 mins
A young Asian woman walks through the city of Glasgow, once the second largest city of the British Empire. Her eyes reflect on the wealth symbolised in the concrete textures of the city’s architectural icons. Signs of Empire ever present in the stone freizes, imposing cast iron statues of dead colonialists, ornate pillars and the opulence of the marble interiors of Glasgow’s City Chambers. Against histories of colonial carnage, Asian people build our communities and cultures forging identities of self-affrimation. Against echoes of colonial memories is the living memory of today’s cultures of resistance … through dance and music, young Asian people celebrate desire and self pride.

Bodily Functions

Jocelyn Taylor

1995

USA / 14 mins
Exploring the notions of body image and sexual expression as they intersect with family and society, this short interweaves three narratives: first, a “naked fugitive on the loose” as she runs, walks and leaves traces of her “alien” existence throughout the city; second, a butch lesbian persona who is the naked woman’s secret cohort; and third, a young girl who is just understanding her own sexuality.

Borborygmus

Rob Churchill

1994

UK / 13 mins
Slapstick comedy about two rivals trying to complete a difficult crossword puzzle. Things get out of control as this battle of wills becomes a full-on physical assault. Reminiscent of the Marx Brothers.
Watch... https://youtu.be/QrjK-CoG3nA

Butch Femme Polka

Maureen Brownsey

1997

USA / 3 mins
In this uproarious musical medley, a trio of lesbians sing and dance their way through a laundry list of do’s-and-don’ts for their ideal lady lover. It’s like Lawrence Welk on acid!

Chow Down

Allyson Mitchell

1997

USA / 3 mins
A chubby girl tries to find the perfect outfit for the big concert. Trouble is, nothing fits. Rather than being frozen by body image badness, the star of Chow Down finds the perfect outfit then ventures down to the kitchen where a kick ass band serenades her from the fridge.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/88960549

Cinema Al Fouad
Cinema al Fouad

Mohamed Soueid

1993

Lebanon / 41 mins
A documentary on the life and ambitions of a young Syrian cross-dresser in Beirut’s old downtown. The video follows her journey from soldier to cabaret dancer in an effort to raise funds for her sex-change operation. Shot in Beirut, Cinema Fouad weaves a complex and multi-layered story of sexuality, identity and desire and paints a compelling portrait of its subject.
Watch… https://youtu.be/fwANQ0jLH1Q

Coming Home Shu Lea Cheang
Coming Home

Shu Lea Cheang

1995

5 mins
The short film, allegorically dramatized, constitutes a pressing appeal for lesbian rights. In a game of hanafuda (flower cards), the terms of lesbian domesticity are played out according to such legalities as joint property, social security, and pensions.

Compromised Immunity

Andy Lipman,
Andy Kirby

1991

UK / 47 mins
A male nurse on a terminal ward develops a close relationship with an AIDS patient.  One of Britain's first AIDS plays, written by Andy Kirby for the Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company in 1986. Adapted by Craig Warner.  Starring Michael Cashman as Gerry, Phil Daniels as Peter, Emma Fielding as Marie, Ann Windsor as Miss Coates and Richard Sandells as Hugh/Ian.  Producer: Turan Ali First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1991.

Cupcake

Allyson Mitchell

1998

3 mins
Cupcake is Girl as chubby eye candy. She takes us on a quest for the perfect dessert. She is proof that eating is sexy. Cupcake talks without shame, about desserts that she loves.
Trailer...https://vimeo.com/88960551

Cuz It’s Boy

Catherine Gund

1994

USA / 14 mins
A rare time-capsule of the attitudes and opinions of queer women to ideas about trans-masculine identity and immediate reactions after the death of Brandon Teena.

Deliliah

Tanya Syed

1995

‘Located in the darkness, a place of no boundaries, Delilah is a ‘meditation on violence’, love and survival.
Interchangeable elements of the warrior, the Sorceress and the lover weave a ritual, creating a dialogue of forces that shifts boundaries. This conversation of gesture and sound moves through tension and release, power and abandon. “The outside is within us. You moved like a warrior but I could not hold you.”

Deviant Beauty

Tina Keane

1996

UK / 12 mins
‘An androgynous woman’s surreal journey through the carnivalesque. Deviant Beauty embodies spectator, erotica, sexuality, death and decay. It questions our expectations of, and pleasure in, the image, against the death and emptiness that lies beneath the alluring surface.’

Diva TV: Like a Prayer

Catherine Gund

1991

USA / 29 mins
DIVA TV was founded in 1989 as a video-documenting affinity group with ACT UP AIDS COALITION TO UNLEASH POWER, an activist group famous for its direct action against bureaucratic neglect and drug company profiteering in the AIDS crisis and widely acknowledged as re-energizing civil disobedience tactics
in the United States.  DIVA TV * documents public testimony, the media, and community activism to motivate the fight against AIDS. 
Watch… https://vimeo.com/127200464

Drag on a Fag

Nick Stagias

1994

Canada / 5 mins
An experimental essay about queer slang, language and semiotics, playful and subverted.

El fascinante mundo de los lepidópteros

Alberto Passolini

1994 

Argentina / 10 mins
Video realizado en 1994, durante los meses en los que pintó el cuadro que articula la narrativa: “Martirio de Santa Rubén de Panamericana”, pintura que inicia a la serie “Panamericana”, que se extendió hasta el año 1999 y que toma esa autopista como escenario de una mitología personal donde aparecen sus primeras citas a la historia del arte. En esa época, Passolini conoció a un grupo de chicas trans con las que coincidía en los viajes de provincia a Capital en colectivo donde conversaban, y que entre esos relatos le cuentan de la muerte de una de sus amigas, La Rubén. En medio de esa tragedia se debatían por el destino de su tapado de piel de leopardo, que la identificaba. Sobre la suerte de esa prenda se dirime la narrativa del video, que fantasea sobre la vejez trans, vista como una posibilidad casi ilusoria.

Elle Pour Elle

Conny Scherrer

1993

Switzerland / 60 mins

Encounter with a Stranger

Atif Siddiqi

1998

Canada / 6 mins

Erotic Exotic

Atif Siddiqi

1998

Canada / 19 mins
A video essay-performance of gender fluidity: mingling the intolerance of South Asian religious heritage towards sexual/gender difference with the rich materials of fabric, makeup, voice and dance.

Fat Chance

Anne Golden

1994

Canada / 7 mins
The starting point of Fat Chance was sexual fantasy. It was featured as both an installation in Fantasmagoria: Sexing the Lesbian Imaginary, produced by the Lock Up Your Daughters Collective. Fantasy? Well, yes. But Fat Chance is also about a big girls’ struggle to insert her own body into a series of tableaux.

Fingers and Kisses

Shu Lea Cheang

1995

5 mins
The short film offers (mostly, by a non-verbal language) a glimpse of lesbian’s public manifestation of sexuality. Fingers and Kisses subverts the cultural invisibility of Asian and lesbian women in Tokyo. The music by Chu punctuates the narrative as it begins in the streets and continues under the sheets.

Genderfuck

Sveta Gilerman

1994

Australia

Hazy Days of Summer

Mike Esser,
Stephen Bulfield

1997

UK / 55 mins
Gay drama directed by Mike Esser. Filmed at a series of locations in the garden of England, and taking 'Brideshead Revisited' as its inspiration, a group of young men enjoy raising their passions in a range of sensual encounters in the sun.;;

I Like Dreaming

Charles Lofton

1994

USA / 6 mins
Lofton muses on the pleasures of cruising “straight-acting, straight-appearing” men.

I Never Danced the Way Girls Were Supposed To

Dawn Suggs

1992

USA / 7 mins
Suggs meditates on Black lesbian subjectivity, exploring the connections between daily rituals and sexuality.

Internal Combustion

Alisa Lebow, Cynthia Madansky

1995

USA / 8 mins
Internal Combustion breaks many silences surrounding lesbians and HIV/AIDS. Interweaving the voices of two friends — an HIV+ Latina lesbian and an HIV- Jewish lesbian —, the video juxtaposes two very different yet overlapping experiences. The piece points to the often unspoken tensions occurring within this epidemic: survival and power, mourning and loss.

JJoan Jett Blakk Announces Her Candidacy For President
oan Jett Blakk Announces Her Candidacy for President 

Bill Stamets

1992

USA / 48 mins

Journey Intersex

Del LaGrace,
Cara Lavan

1999

UK / 26 mins
Del travels to Seattle to meet their long lost cousin Heidi. Although Del has been warned to NOT reveal the family secret, that Heidi was thought to be a boy when she was born, Del ultimately decides it is immoral to keep the fact that Heidi has and intersex variation from her. Journey Intersex invites us to become part of the cousins process of discovery about what it means to have a body does not easily conform to either female or male.

Kissing Doesn't Kill

Tom Kalin,
Gran Fury

1990

USA / 4 mins
Part of a campaign initiated in 1989, this video is a component of Gran Fury’s plan to raise consciousness and advance medical and federal reform on HIV/AIDS policy. These ads ran on TV as a counterpart to controversial bus posters, which generated some intensely negative reactions.
Trailer… https://youtu.be/mcr4CZs5Ciw

L Is For The Way You Look
Lesbian Cult:
L is for the Way You LOOK

Jean Carlomusto

1991 

USA / 4 mins
A short documentary that brings lesbian history together using bits of gossip and memories, weaving a humorous portrait of a community's struggle for visibility.

Letter to My Father /
Lettre à Mon Père

Michel Langlois

1992

Canada / 13 mins
Deeply personal, the artist’s voice addresses his late father and updates the departed on family and identity.

Listen to This

Tom Rubnitz

1992

USA / 16 mins
The film is a fragment of collective memory that finds critical relevance in contemporary queer discourse. Rubnitz weaves narration, image, and a form of temporality, dislocated from ‘real time’, into a video where artist and HIV/AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz’s loss and anger is palpable.

LUST Plenary

Catherine Gund

1994

9 mins
This sharp, funny introduction to the organisation and aspirations of the Lesbians Undoing Sexual Taboos conference in reaction to the essential need for a (missing) space for women-loving-women to discuss everything from fisting to cats. Still sound familiar?

Magic Cottage

Joe Orr

1993

UK / 30 mins

Mein Vater Frau Hiller 

Till Passow

1998

Germany / 33 mins
A 98 year old transvestite called Frau Hiller lives in Berlin and has a 65 year old daughter.

Memory Tracks
Memory Tracks

Jamika Ajalon

1997

UK, USA / 10 mins
A woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown follows the afroed spirit of a revolutionary past through London's streets: Brixton and Portobello. I used the camera as the means for reflexive analysis of black female subjectivity and performances of resistance in urban spaces, specifically within the context of London's Portobello and Brixton.
Watch… https://youtu.be/vCkD8d71EBI

Mr. B.

Cathy Sisler

1994

Canada / 7 mins
A short drag video about becoming a businessman in public for a day.

Museum

Arnoud Holleman

1998

The Netherlands / 8 mins
People cruising in a fictitious museum. A choreography of gazes.

My Anus Hates the Discursive Acts That It Tends to Associate with Hegemonic Forms of Its Cultural Analysis

Jonah Groeneboer

1999

Canada / 3 mins

My Clients call me Gilles /
Mes Clients M'appellent Gilles

Stéphane Aucante

1998

France / 16 mins
Il s'appelle Yves le jour et Gilles la nuit, quand il tapine. Une manière de ne pas mélanger les clients et les amis. Des clients, Gilles en a beaucoup ; des amis, beaucoup moins.

My Family A Work in Progress aka A Prodigal Son

Del LaGrace

1999

California / 15 mins
Del journeys back to the Central Coast of California for the first time since coming out as both intersex, gender-queer and trans in the mid 90s. The matriarchal family seat includes cousins, sisters, an adoring nephew and well as Del’s late mother and step-father. Hans Scheirl (from PPP) comes along for moral support and flirts with my mother!

Natten är min – en film om Eugene Jansson

Olle Holm

1997

Sweden / 13 mins
Natten är min är en bit svensk queer historia om konstnären och ”Blå-målaren” Eugene Jansson av Olle Holm, som även filmade kultfilmen ”Bögjävlar” från 1977. I filmen medverkar även nu bortgångne Greger Eman, uppskattad redaktör på RFSLs tidning Kom Ut!

New York Conversations

Vivienne Dick

1990

UK / 21 mins
The lives, fears and work of six New Yorkers in a series of video interviews.

No Use Walking When You Can Stroll

Penelope Spheeris

1998

USA
A short documentary about the director’s mother – married 10 times, carny, bartender – a charming woman who lived a life, often marred by tragedy, to its fullest.

Nomades Afghans

Ella Maillart

1992

Switzerland / 37 mins

One and the other time

Sarah Tuner

1990

UK / 5 mins
An exploration of the dynamics between intimacy and violence, in the context of one’s continual desire to reconcile psychical and external reality; that is the nearer one gets to that essentially, the further one is literally pushed away from ‘it’.

Pan Sexual Public Porn
Pan Sexual Public Porn AKA The Adventures of Hans & Del

Del LaGrace

1997

UK / 12 mins
Del leads Hans and other queer friends into several gay male cruising grounds in southern England as they explore their newly gendered, trans-masculine bodies and see who they can persuade to have sex with them on camera, then and there. Seized by Customs in New Zealand in 1999 they released it the following year with a glowing recommendation that ‘this is a film New Zealand queers should see”!

Portrait d’une Présidente

Brigitte Tijou

1995

France / 88 mins
Portrait de Cleews Vellay, président d’Act Up-Paris, mort du sida en 1994, qui évoque son enfance, sa famille, son homosexualité et ses engagements. Se dessine à travers ses anecdotes personnelles une histoire du sida et de l’homophobie. Et surtout, l’histoire d’une colère. Avec les témoignages de Philippe Labbey, Didier Lestrade, Philippe Mangeot et Jacques Martineau.

Prowling by Night 

Gwendolyn + Co

1990

Canada / 12 mins
Produced as part of the National Film Board’s Five Feminist Minutes, this collaborative work between Gwendolyn and fellow sex trade workers is an examination of police harassment, safe sex education and sex worker’s rights. Well received by the public and the critics, the film also won the award for Best First Short Film at La Mondiale de films et vidéos réalisés par des femmes in April 1991.

RV, mon ami

Lionel Soukaz

1994

France / 28 mins
Watch... https://vimeo.com/74105607

Sadomaoistan - Gym Noir

Torkel Gjørv,
Christer Hellen,
Halvard Haldorsen

1995

Norway
In the nineties, the band Sadomaoistan became synonymous with everything that was hard, raw, wild and gay in Oslo's music scene. With rock-hard techno and legendary stage shows, they created their own niche before disappearing into the darkness of history. Their discography is short with a single album release; Retroscopy. Gym Noir is from there and became the band's only official music video. The video was a volunteer project and most of the people you see in the video were key players in Oslo's queer nightlife in the mid-90s. Party organisers, artists, clubbers and not least the HIV/AIDS activist Kalle Mannes turn this into a life-affirming video postcard from a period where activism and hedonism went hand in hand.

Save Sex

Barbara Hammer

1993

USA / 1:14 min
A brief, rhythmic play on words, Hammers safe sex film makes a compelling case for no glove, no love.

Scent UVA Butch

Shoshana Rosenfeld

1998

USA / 35 mins
A treasure trivia of butches deconstructs their own butchness in this nuanced colloquium about inventing and celebrating gender. The 20 female subjects discuss the power of the femme, butch-on-butch bonding, menopause, eating pussy, the joys (and travails!) of the body, and the problems and small victories of growing up as gender dissidents. Also included for the novice is a helpful step-by-step guide on packing. By the end you won't be sure whether the original butch was a boy or a girl.

Sex Bowl

Shu Lea Cheang

1994

7 mins
The short film –edited like a music video– is celebratory of eroticism through bowling scenes and sexually explicit content. Sex Bowl represents, narratively and aesthetically, the fetishes and the promiscuity of various sexual encounters.

Sex Fish Shu Lea Cheang
Sex Fish

Shu Lea Cheang

1993

6 mins
In Sex Fish, water is representative of nature imaginary and sex. In this sense, water signifies the relation between the sexualization of nature and the naturalization of sexuality. The short film constitutes a representation of lesbian eroticism and explores the relation between nature, women and power

Shame

Steve McBride

1994

UK / 17 mins
Closeted lovers and stars of the American series 'Starting Out' Aiden Forrester and Joe Diskoff arrive in the heart of the North of England for some PR work, unaware that Newcastle based journalist Mike Salmon it out to OUT their special relationship in the hope of career advancement thereafter. Only such a sexual exposé requires evidence. And boy does Mike find it, when in sneaking his way into their hotel room, he comes to witness more than he bargained for, as the boys get down to some business of their own - man-on-man style!  With the goods on our boys, Salmon is soon to hit the keyboard, knowing that his dream of becoming the premier North East entertainment reporter is but a deadline away. Or so it would appear. For with a spoiler warning firmly in place, fate has a way of changing things, given Aiden and Joe have the last laugh when thanks to their televised coming out interview, Mike finds himself with a dead article on his hands and a career move - in the backward direction!

She-Male by Choice

Marc Antonio

1993

USA / 60 mins

Shirley Temple and Me

Barbara Hammer

1993

USA / 3 mins
A meditation on Barbara Hammers relationship to the celebrated child actor whose high-profile career dominated her childhood—and her parents highest hopes.

Single Double Doubt /
Dúvidas Entre Ficar só ou Não

Linda Sternö

1999

Sweden

Solos y Soledades

Javier Antonio Berrios

1992

Cuba

Soy Travesti

Marisol Soto Rodríguez

1998

Cuba / 90 mins
Un joven con deseos distintos a la enseñanza de su padre decide tomer su verdadera personalidad. Se enfrenta a un mundo distinto al de él y entrará a la historia del odio, el desamor y el desprecio. Enfrentará el amor que quiso tener siempre y el desprecio de un padre que no quiere aceptar el destino de su hijo.

Speaking in Riddles

Mark C. O'Faherty

1994

UK

Splash

Thomas Allen Harris

1991

USA / 7 mins
SPLASH is a fable-like tale of memory and emotion. Using a range of techniques, it deftly explores the interplay between identity, fantasy, gender, homosexual desire and pre-adolescence. These forces are but narrowly defined masculinity–particularly Black masculinity.

Stonewall 25:
Voices of Pride & Protest

?

1997

USA / 90 mins
Watch… https://youtu.be/w-EUHLvWM_Q

The Daisy Chain

Kevin D’souza

1998

Canada / 15 mins
This project brings together five South Asian men from across Canada. Each of the men express in a short video-vignette a particular experience of their carnal body in relation to queer ‘male’ sexuality. This video-chain-letter originated in Calgary where Kevin d’Souza recorded a short message and then passed it on to the next participant who in turn recorded his own message and then circulated it to the next participant.

The HIV Gameshow

Stephen Cummins

1995

Australia / 1 mins
Drawn from a fragment of Stephen’s unfinished film script Status – a film about HIV and disclosure – this project was developed by Simon Hunt and Brad Miller for screening in the “Big New Sites” cinema project but was banned by cinema advertising company Pearl & Dean.

The Male Gayze Jack Waters
The Male Gayze

Jack Waters

1990

USA / 11 mins
The Male GaYze presents an individual’s observation of sexuality and power relations between men, a young African American dancer’s reminiscence of his encounter with a famous Dutch choreographer.
Watch… https://vimeo.com/113547900

The Mirror

Matthew Moore

1999

USA / 75 mins

The Mister Sisters

Ingrid Wilhite

1994

USA / 12 mins
Two dykes vent about mistaken gender and the power and perils of presenting as butch, while hilariously fantasizing about turning the tables on the gay bachelor scene.

The Untransmittable Lily Savage Show
The Untransmittable Lily Savage Show

?

1999

UK / 60 mins
La Savage is at her most outrageous in this straight to video offering that is simply too rude for the television. A host of television celebrities risk embarrassment at the wicked tongue of the glamourous Lily in a series of sketches. Those willing to subject themselves include Martine McCutcheon (Tiffany from 'Eastenders'), Anthea Turner, Linda Robson and Janet Street-Porter.

Those Fluttering Objects of Desire

Shu Lea Cheang

1992

60 mins
This tape was originally an installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art, part of which included the video collaboration Channels of Desire. Recreating coin-operated porno booths, Channels aired one photo image on seven TVs, interrupted only by the viewer inserting a coin and choosing a segment. The concept behind it was the construction of desire in categorical ways, the form of the piece speaking to sexual desire as something that is constantly evading the viewer. The images present women’s experiences with interracial, lesbian, and heterosexual encounters. Those Fluttering Objects of Desire also investigates the different construction of sexuality among white and black women, as well as multicultural readings.

Two/Doh

Michelle Mohabeer

1996

Canada / 5 mins

Untouchable

Thirza Cuthand

1998

Canada / 4 mins
Pedophiles, teenage stalkers, and innocent little girls! Cuthand explores the struggles between inter-generational partners and the powerlessness felt by youth.

Visione di gioco

Nicoletta Nesler, Marilisa Piga

1995

Italy / 33 mins
On the occasion of the finals of the Italian football championship for the blind four teams compete: Naples, Lecce, Rome and Ferrara. It tells of the deep passion for sport and the freedom that comes from practicing it. 

In occasione delle finali del campionato italiano di calcio per non vedenti assoluti quattro squadre si sfidano: Napoli, Lecce, Roma e Ferrara. Si narra della profonda passione per lo sport e dalla libertà che deriva dal praticarlo.

Water into Fire

Zachery Longboy

1994

Canada / 10mins
The Final piece of the trilogy Stained Glass Windows, the artist continues his search for identity and placement in Canada's Multi-Cultural and First Nation arena. Longboy outs himself as a first Nations FAG, who is living with HIV and abruptly severs attached preconceptions of two spirited peoples, forcing the First Nations community to address him rather than the disease. In a contemplative and meditative search, Longboy recollects how HIV/AIDS has affected himself and the community around him, revealing a strength through loss. Stained Glass Windows is comprised of: From Another Time Comes One..., Eating Lunch, & Water Into Fire.

Welcome To Africville
Welcome to Africville

Dana C. Inkster

1999

Canada / 15 mins
This short film gives a glimpse into the hearts and minds of four Africville residents on the eve of destruction of their commun3ity. 1999, the year the film was made, marked the 30th anniversary of the destruction of the Halifax community known as Africville.

When a Kid Is Gay

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1995

USA / 60 mins
From its title, When a Kid Is Gay sounds like a self-help guide for stressed-out parents of gay kids, a step-by-step program on what to do ('(1) do not panic, (2) stop panicking'). In actuality, this sensitively but realistically made special is a testament to the strength and determination of teens and young adults who are slowly but surely finding their way out of the closet. Profiling a gay and lesbian youth group in Worcester, Massachusetts, the program offers different looks at various group members who are all dealing with different aspects of coming out: Jason is wrestling with his religious beliefs, Chris is dealing with a hostile family environment, Jeremy is adjusting to being out in the real world, Amy feels she can't bring her girlfriend home to meet her parents, and such. What makes this quietly affecting special topnotch is that these kids are real, articulate, and honest, easy to identify with--this isn't some glossed-up Beverly Hills 90210-style video. They're going through all the pain and pressure of coming out and admirably wrestling with complex issues at a very young age. Kids who are just starting to explore their sexuality would do very well to watch When a Kid Is Gay, if only to see that the solitary experience of coming out is something that's universally dealt with by all members of the gay community. It won't offer any answers to specific questions, but When a Kid Is Gay does offer courage and hope to kids who are wrestling with their homosexuality. --Mark Englehart

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Vincent Martorana

1995

France / 87 mins
« D’Act Up-Paris on connaît les actions médiatiques… D’Act Up-Paris je connais quelques militants, amicalement ou pour les avoir accompagnés à plusieurs reprises lors de manifestations. Ce film est la chronique d’une quinzaine de jours passés avec certains d’entre eux. » Vincent Martorana.
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