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24th Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
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Natalie Williams
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1999
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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
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A Boy’s Life
(1996-2018)
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Mike Hoolboom
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1996
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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… here
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A nostro gradimento
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Nicoletta Nesler, Marilisa Piga
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1994
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Italy / 32 mins
Cinque persone down intorno ad un tavolo radiofonico raccontano il loro essere down.
Watch… here
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A Skinny Little Man Attacked Daddy
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Vivienne Dick
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1994
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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
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A Supernatural Premiere
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Kevin Kelly
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1995
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Canada / 6 mins
Memories of the artist’s relationship with his brother, told through clips of 1960s TV shows they enjoyed together.
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After Morning
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Kelly O’Brien
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1999
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Canada / 5 mins
Things the filmmaker forgot and learned about birth control on her trip to America.
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Airport
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Silke Dunkhorst,
Manuela Kay
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1994
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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”.
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Aku Perempuan dan Lelaki Itu
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Aria Kusumadewa
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1997
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Indonesia / 45 mins
A young woman is confused between the man she loves and the feminist boss she has. She gradually is convinced that she doesn't need a man in her life.
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Alphabit Land:
The Backyard Tour Featuring Wigstock 89
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John Canalli
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1990
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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.
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B.U.C.K.LE.
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Catherine Gund
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1993
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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.
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Bad Girls
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Krista Beinstein
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1990
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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.
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Bad Teacher's Equation /
Kusatta Kyoushi no Houteishiki
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Kazuma Kodaka
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1994
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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?
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bed
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Evie Leder
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1999
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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
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Behind Me is Black
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Cushla Dillion,
Kristy Cameron
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1999
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Aotearoa / 12 mins
This film hasn’t been seen for decades. In the 1970’s, Christchurch artist Paul Johns created an intimate portrait of the transgender community in Aotearoa/NZ, by capturing friends and acquaintances on 16mm. In 1999 Johns entrusted this footage to filmmakers Cameron and Dillon. They constructed a film that is an ode to Paul’s work, and an exploration of both the texture and internal qualities of the image. The subterranean soundtrack by sound artist Rachel Shearer adds to the evocation of memory, nostalgia and identity to weave together a dreamy trance-like journey.
Trailer… here
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Beyond Queer: Voices From Bohemian New York
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Penny Arcade,
Steve Zehentner,
Anna Margarita Albelo
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1999
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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.
Watch… here
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Bhangra Jig
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Pratibha Parma
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1990
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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.
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Bodily Functions
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Jocelyn Taylor
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1995
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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.
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Borborygmus
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Rob Churchill
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1994
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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... here
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Butch Femme Polka
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Maureen Brownsey
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1997
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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!
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Castro
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Tony (Chun Hui) Wu
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1996
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USA, Taiwan / 9 mins
A super-8mm queer experimental film shot in San Francisco in 1996. Inspired by the works of Maya Deren, it explores queer desire through surrealism. Using found footage and Super-8mm film, it reimagines scenes from Fassbinder’s Querelle, blending reality and dream sequences.
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Chow Down
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Allyson Mitchell
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1997
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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...here
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Cinema al Fouad
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Mohamed Soueid
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1993
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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… here
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Coming Home
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Shu Lea Cheang
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1995
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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.
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Compromised Immunity
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Andy Lipman,
Andy Kirby
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1991
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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.
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Cupcake
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Allyson Mitchell
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1998
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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...here
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Cuz It’s Boy
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Catherine Gund
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1994
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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.
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Deliliah
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Tanya Syed
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1995
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UK / 12 mins
‘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.”
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Deviant Beauty
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Tina Keane
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1996
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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.’
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Diva TV: Like a Prayer
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Catherine Gund
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1991
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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… here
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Drag on a Fag
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Nick Stagias
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1994
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Canada / 5 mins
An experimental essay about queer slang, language and semiotics, playful and subverted.
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El fascinante mundo de los lepidópteros
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Alberto Passolini
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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.
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Elle Pour Elle
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Conny Scherrer
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1993
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Switzerland / 60 mins
In her frustration, Alexandra (Alex Bisaz), a young, not very successful painter, let herself be persuaded by her colleague Alice (Annalisa Mächler) to go to lesbian bar. There she meets Simone (Caroline Fest) and falls in love with her head. But she already lives in a firm – and established – relationship with Sandra (Conny Scherrer). After some turbulence, Alexandra decides to concentrate on her work – and lo and behold: not only success comes in, but also love happiness.
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Encounter with a Stranger
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Atif Siddiqi
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1998
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Canada / 6 mins
Encounter is a twisted tale of rescue and romance, told in the narration. The images are poetic and have a photographic quality. They illustrate the state of the narrator/performer as a damsel in distress in an Indian S/M fantasy.
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Erotic Exotic
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Atif Siddiqi
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1998
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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.
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Fat Chance
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Anne Golden
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1994
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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.
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Fingers and Kisses
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Shu Lea Cheang
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1995
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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.
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Genderfuck
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Sveta Gilerman
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1994
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Australia / 4 mins
Does gender fuck or do we fuck gender?
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Ghost Carnival
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Qiu Miao-jin,
Lin Hsu Wen-Er
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1991
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Taiwan / 35 mins
A young woman commits suicide and returns to haunt her brother in the days approaching his twentieth birthday.
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I Like Dreaming
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Charles Lofton
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1994
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USA / 6 mins
Lofton muses on the pleasures of cruising “straight-acting, straight-appearing” men.
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I Never Danced the Way Girls Were Supposed To
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Dawn Suggs
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1992
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USA / 7 mins
Suggs meditates on Black lesbian subjectivity, exploring the connections between daily rituals and sexuality.
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Internal Combustion
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Alisa Lebow,
Cynthia Madansky
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1995
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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.
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Joan Jett Blakk Announces Her Candidacy for President
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Bill Stamets
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1992
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USA / 48 mins
Joan Jett Blakk announces her candidacy for president at Ann Sather restaurant and the Berlin nightclub on Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.
Joan Jett Blakk's run to become "the first queer, black drag-queen president" forced Washington to grapple with queer issues.
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Journey Intersex
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Del LaGrace,
Cara Lavan
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1999
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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.
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Kissing Doesn't Kill
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Tom Kalin,
Gran Fury
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1990
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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… here
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Lesbian Cult:
L is for the Way You LOOK
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Jean Carlomusto
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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.
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Letter to My Father /
Lettre à Mon Père
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Michel Langlois
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1992
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Canada / 13 mins
Deeply personal, the artist’s voice addresses his late father and updates the departed on family and identity.
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LUST Plenary
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Catherine Gund
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1994
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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?
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Magic Cottage
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Joe Orr
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1993
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UK / 30 mins
A man drunkenly stumbles into a park’s toilets and becomes beholden to a powerful new sexual compulsion.
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Mein Vater Frau Hiller
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Till Passow
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1998
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Germany / 33 mins
A 98 year old transvestite called Frau Hiller lives in Berlin and has a 65 year old daughter.
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Memory Tracks
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Jamika Ajalon
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1997
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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… here
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Mr. B.
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Cathy Sisler
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1994
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Canada / 7 mins
A short drag video about becoming a businessman in public for a day.
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Museum
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Arnoud Holleman
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1998
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The Netherlands / 8 mins
People cruising in a fictitious museum. A choreography of gazes.
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My Anus Hates the Discursive Acts That It Tends to Associate with Hegemonic Forms of Its Cultural Analysis
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Jonah Groeneboer
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1999
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Canada / 3 mins
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My Clients call me Gilles /
Mes Clients M'appellent Gilles
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Stéphane Aucante
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1998
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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.
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My Family A Work in Progress aka A Prodigal Son
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Del LaGrace
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1999
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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!
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Natten är min – en film om Eugene Jansson
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Olle Holm
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1997
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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!
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New York Conversations
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Vivienne Dick
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1990
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UK / 21 mins
Produced over the Christmas of 1990, New York Conversations explores the lives, fears and work of six New Yorkers in a series of video verite interviews. Frequently funny, often life affirming, sometimes bizarre insights into the lives of the real ‘thirtysomething’ generation.
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No Use Walking When You Can Stroll
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Penelope Spheeris
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1998
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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.
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One and the other time
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Sarah Tuner
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1990
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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’.
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One Man Ladies
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Vaginal Davis
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1994
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USA / 29 mins
One Man Ladies—The unorthodox neo conservative chic commentators Vaginal Davis in Rick Owens Couture and Glennda Orgasm aka: Glenn Belverio (wearing Sylvia Heisel) speak to women only, on the mean streets of the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Pan Sexual Public Porn AKA The Adventures of Hans & Del
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Del LaGrace
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1997
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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”!
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Portrait d’une Présidente
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Brigitte Tijou
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1995
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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.
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Prowling by Night
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Gwendolyn + Co
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1990
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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.
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RV, mon ami
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Lionel Soukaz
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1994
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France / 28 mins
Elegy of polaroids shot in empty and high cameras, where one looks for the point in blurry photos to refuse the absence of the loved one.
Watch... here
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Sadomaoistan - Gym Noir
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Torkel Gjørv,
Christer Hellen,
Halvard Haldorsen
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1995
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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.
Trailer... here
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Save Sex
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Barbara Hammer
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1993
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USA / 1:14 min
A brief, rhythmic play on words, Hammers safe sex film makes a compelling case for no glove, no love.
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Scent UVA Butch
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Shoshana Rosenfeld
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1998
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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.
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Sex Bowl
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Shu Lea Cheang
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1994
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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.
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Sex Fish
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Shu Lea Cheang
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1993
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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
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Shame
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Steve McBride
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1994
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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!
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She-Male by Choice
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Marc Antonio
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1993
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USA / 60 mins
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Shirley Temple and Me
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Barbara Hammer
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1993
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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.
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Solos y Soledades
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Javier Antonio Berrios
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1992
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Cuba / 16 mins
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Soy Travesti
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Marisol Soto Rodríguez
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1998
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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.
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Speaking in Riddles
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Mark C. O'Faherty
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1994
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UK
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Splash
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Thomas Allen Harris
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1991
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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.
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Straightboy Lessons
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Raymond Rae
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1999
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USA / 8 mins
A humorous and early look at one cisgender/transmale friendship.
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Stonewall 25:
Voices of Pride & Protest
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John Scagliotti
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1997
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USA / 90 mins
Finished a quarter century after the earth-shaking protests that forever altered the public perception of LGBTQ people in America, Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest, produced by the gay news program “In the Life,” took the measure of what’s changed for the Queer community since 1969—and what hasn’t. Captures a million-strong anniversary march in NYC, fanfare around Gay Games IV, a visit to the historic Stonewall Inn, and testimony from prominent gay and lesbian figures and allies, including Sir Ian McKellen, Harvey Fierstein, and Joan Rivers.
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Taiwan Video Club
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Lana Lin
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1999
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USA / 14 mins
Taiwan Video Club follows Asian immigrants who exchange videotapes of their favourite Taiwanese opera. Their pirate distribution transformed consumer video history, transitioning stories from oral traditions to VCR sharing. These duplicated “low-grade” visuals connect diasporic women to their native culture.
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The Daisy Chain
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Kevin D’souza
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1998
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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.
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The HIV Gameshow
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Stephen Cummins
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1995
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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.
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The Male Gayze
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Jack Waters
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1990
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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.
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The Mirror
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Matthew Moore
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1999
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USA / 75 mins
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The Mister Sisters
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Ingrid Wilhite
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1994
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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.
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The Untransmittable Lily Savage Show
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Alasdair Macmillan
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1999
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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.
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Those Fluttering Objects of Desire
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Shu Lea Cheang
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1992
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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.
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Two/Doh
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Michelle Mohabeer
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1996
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Canada / 5 mins
“Two/Doh” is an evocative poetic pastiche exploring the public and private spaces of desire, and its intersection with the cultural and erotic connections between two women of different origins: Persian/Armenian and South Asian/Sri Lankan.
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Untouchable
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Thirza Cuthand
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1998
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Canada / 4 mins
Pedophiles, teenage stalkers, and innocent little girls! Cuthand explores the struggles between inter-generational partners and the powerlessness felt by youth.
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Visione di gioco
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Nicoletta Nesler, Marilisa Piga
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1995
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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.
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Water into Fire
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Zachery Longboy
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1994
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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.
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Welcome to Africville
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Dana C. Inkster
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1999
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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.
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When a Kid Is Gay
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1995
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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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Who Killed Rose Levine
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Sal Piro
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1994 |
USA / 90 mins
This original 1994 production of "Who Killed Rose Levine" was written and directed by Sal Piro and performed with all-star Cherry Grove cast at the Community House and Theater. Billed as a backstage murder mystery, the audience is taken on a musical ramp to find out who's killed drag icon Rose Levine, culminating with her performing at her own funeral.
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Zap
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Vincent Martorana
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1995
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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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