Film Categories: gay

  • Between You and Me

    “Between You and Me” (Tangled Garden, Act III, Scene I) looks at the internalization of homophobia and fatalism present in mainstream representations of the AIDS pandemic, as it reflects on the conflict between grief and desire in a gay man’s psyche. The film challenges the viewer to turn their red ribbons into real action both on the streets and in bed, and to resist the industry of AIDS. Also available on QUEERS ON THE VERGE.

  • Offering, The

    This is a film about the progression and the passing of life. Without dialogue and music, the story centres on the evolution of love and friendship between a Japanese monk and the young novice who has come into his life, from their initial encounter to their final parting. In rejecting his own faith and drowning in self-doubts, the novice leaves his life of unfulfilled potentials. The passing of life is demarcated by the progression of seasons. The only force that propels the narrative forward is the poetic seasonal variations in nature. The passing of life, in this life, in this…

  • Minus

    “Minus” is a hand-processed, uncut, singular stream of movements. To take away: either to leave remnants of light or to leave remnants of rhythms. Entirely hand-processed and unscathed by the blades of the splicer. This is Chong’s first 16mm film. Inspired by Ritchie Hawkin’s Concept albums.

  • Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables

    “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animated adventure that moves through the city in search of safe havens, house music, romantic boys in record stores, distracting images from childhood, and finally into the place where we all want to be…all in the attempt to find a place of least-anxiety. Shot on Super 8 and blown up to 16mm, “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animation film that encompasses clay-mation, cell animation, and live action.

  • Music Might Have Deceived Us

    “Chong brings queer chops into new sightlines with this elegant mini-essay on desire… A series of peek-a-boo mattes admit moments glimpsed in passing. Scars of seeing. The throbbing, hand-processed emulsion begins with clouds then descends through traffic to arrive at the aching towards some new moment of release.” – Mike Hoolboom, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, 2000

  • ACHTUNG – die Achtung (concentration chair) | ACHTUNG – Respect (concentration chair)

    “There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.” – Immanuel Kant, “Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason “ Born in the body (…and in time…) “Certainly even today some viewers will be affected by this work. Respect for the true art of filmmaking demanded that even the closeup be kept in, where a razor slices through an eye.” – Warning introduction to the German archival copy of “Un Chien Andalou”

  • Beso Nocturno

    Dark and energetic, “BESO NOCTURNO” (Night Kiss) involves a young man who witnesses the horrible death of his girlfriend. He then sells his sexual services to a dying old man, only to suffer a tragic fate.

  • Sunflower

    A little sunflower seeks the light but is battered by the elements. Will anyone come to the rescue?

  • ALL YOU CAN EAT

    A collage of Super 8mm 70’s porn that is bigger than life in 35mm. A sexy and fun smorgasbord – all you can eat in five minutes.

  • Alone

    A raw, haunting glimpse of a crucial moment in the lives of three people. “Alone” is a poetically stylized portrait of abandonment and despair.