Film Categories: gay

  • Sultana’s reign

    Sultana of New York is a Palestinian drag queen, performer, and artist. “Sultana’s Rein” opens with a conversation with Sultana, as she is being painted by Jordanian artist, RIDIKKULUZ. Reflecting on her journey from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, to then New York, Sultana tells of the challenges of performing drag in conservative societies, her nostalgia for the glory days and the glamour of Egyptian cinema icons, and her struggle to prove her existence and her self-expression as a performer and artist. She also shares her love of celebration and her everlasting commitment to be true to herself.

  • Les fleurs du mâle

    “The mysterious creature, Salma, realizes that being herself has repercussions on her life and that she will never be accepted as she is. So she decides to ask the creatress of this world for mercy.” The film was shot in super 8 in-camera edited. It was inspired by the letter sent by Charles Baudelaire to the Empress Eugenie after being censored and fined for his book “Les fleurs du mal”. The reason of the condemnation: offense to public morals and good manners as well as offense to religious morality.

  • One Thing I Can Afford

    Louie Sanchez is the performance moniker of Filipinx artist Eirene Cloma. Cloma has recently completed a small collection of songs that broadly reflects on their working-class Filipinx upbringing in North Vancouver and the entanglements of diaspora, interracial relations, and queer desire that texture their everyday experiences. The video for their song One Thing I Can Afford broadly addresses queer and trans friendship in the diaspora, Filipinx masculinities, and everyday enactments of transgenerational care.

  • I Believe in the Good of Life

    “I Believe in the Good of Life” celebrates the antics of Toronto drag queen Tawny Le Sabre (Alex McClelland) as the film catalogues the crimes made throughout one summer. Legendary drag artist Keith Cole plays the judge and also Le Sabres co-conspirator in this colourfully absurd film shot on 16mm. Also making cameos: Will Munro, GB Jones and Owen Pallett. A virtual time-capsule of the Toronto queer scene at the turn of the millennium.

  • Golden Streams

    Joel Gibb’s first film shot on super 8 edited by Robert Kennedy layers multiple shots of piss to create a unique grid, a utopic idea of heaven and the beginning of life itself.

  • WAR TIMES

    An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940’s Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age. Adoring and loathing one another until full acknowledgment that it should always be this way.

  • Der Untermensch

    Dedicated to the memory of the Second World War’s homosexual victims. This short contemporary dance film abstractly depicts the persecution of homosexuals at the hands of the Third Reich by establishing a parallel between incarceration in the camps and the physical confinement felt when freedom is suppressed.

  • Mississauga Goddamn

    Mississauga Goddam was conceived as an anthem and a love letter to Mississauga, the city Gibb grew up in as a gay teen in the 90s. Its somber tone acknowledges that while being a city of opportunity for some, Mississauga is also the traditional territory of indigenous people whose history is subject to erasure. With Mississauga Goddam Gibb also alludes to Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam”, suggesting that suburbia is a battleground for LGBT equality.

  • through the bushes and the trees, you’ll find me

    “through the bushes and the trees, you’ll find me” intertwines the personal and political histories of Hanlan’s Point Beach, the site of Canada’s first pride gathering in the early 1970s. A hole punch serves as a symbolic peephole, reflecting the cruising areas on the beach that invite both spectatorship and participation. By situating the tender moments of queer affection amidst the vast body of water surrounding the Toronto islands, the film celebrates and interrogates the histories and spaces of queer love and resistance. This work was made by hole punching frame by frame using a cricut machine, then manually taping…

  • longer than that, she said

    A meditation on anticipatory loss, this film examines the artists relationship with grief and attempts to ground herself. This film was hand processed in cilantro, mint and tansy at the Film Farm Residency hosted by Phillip Hoffman. Dyed in turmeric and walnut and utilizing freezing film decay techniques.