Film Categories: comedy

  • Cleaning For Love

    Sent to Canada under a false identity her husband created for her, Colombian-born Luna finds herself working as a cleaning lady. She tries to get along with her co-workers, whom she considers economic refugees like herself; but her upper-class attitude alienates her. Luna fantasizes about the soap operas she used to watch. However, Chon Li, whom Mexican boss Manuel manipulates with promises of improving her status, forces Luna back to reality. Rarely is life as squeaky clean as soap, and Luna gradually starts scrubbing away the layer of grime that seems to coat everything. She learns from Abdel, a Sufi…

  • Sex Life of the Chair, The

    “The Sex Life of the Chair” treats the chair as a domesticated animal and develops a theory of its reproductive life to represent in animated drawings. Proposing that the human backside functions much like the airborne insect in plant pollination, the film integrates drawn studies of adolescent chair rotation with a sequence representing a chair’s sexual fantasy of witnessing a dancing pair of pink buttocks. The graphic style eschews the standards for children’s animation in favor of a pseudo-scientific accuracy and precision.

  • Butch or Consequences

    Louise, an old-school butch, falls in love with a pretend TV lesbian and in her desperate need to be with her she participates in a fictional make-over show, Inside Out: Deviant Dyke to Diva. Louise, reveals her new marriage approved look to her local dyke march when suddenly it all starts to go wrong, or, some would say, it all gets right.

  • Checkout

    A smart, fast-paced comedy about sexual competition and identity. Corey and Max compete for the same woman at the grocery store. However, all is not what it seems at the checkout line.

  • Shut Up Barbie

    The film is a reaction to the obsession a seven-year-old girl has with her many Barbie Dolls. The world of Barbie is pushed to its innocuous and tragic conclusions. Ann Knutson plays the role of the mother. “Shut Up Barbie” was pixilated in Tiburon, Ca.

  • Men’s Boutique

    “Men’s Boutique” contemplates what to do (and where to do it) as a gay man gets older.

  • Four Feet

    As Veronica ponders her current relationship, a psychic appears out of nowhere and gives her an answer she never expected.

  • Today, I Become A Man

    “Today, I Become A Man” is a 9-minute documentary about a man who tries to pass as a “real” drag king by pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man.

  • Fine and Dandy

    A woman whose thoughts and actions are controlled by 1885 social etiquette is struggling to find happiness through self help books and videos. Through this she hopes to attract the attention of a potential female suitor.

  • Sports Bra

    Exercise is failure in action. RM Vaughan and Shannon Cochrane try to be fit, sporty, and active people, but bad wigs and poor co-ordination always get in the way.