Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • King County

    “King County” follows Camile Schwartzbaum as she leads her community theatre company in a frantic search for a bad 80s movie to turn into the next Broadway Smash ala XANADU.

  • Somebody Is Watching Us

    Two young men, Alliocha and Bruno, have anonymous sex in a public bathroom and are prematurely separated when one loses his nerve. Bruno fears they’ve been watched. Later, the two men are reunited by chance in the same English as a Second Language class for new Canadian immigrants. Alliocha, the young extroverted Russian, tries to provoke his potential partner, Bruno into having a relationship. But their lack of common language leads them into a unique clash of cultures. One day, an unexpected event brings them together again and both men are forced to confront their assumptions of each other.

  • Destroying Angel

    “Destroying Angel” is an experimental documentary that relates two stories of illness, and weaves them into a filmic tapestry of family history, memory and loss. The narrator, confronted with his own mortality, guides us through a landscape of recollections, dreams, close friendships and family ties. Narratives about present-day events interplay with lyrical reminiscences of the past. Eventually, just as the past always informs the present, the two styles of narrative begin to merge. In the end, we are left with a moving portrait of the struggles involved in dealing with AIDS, cancer, memory and intimate relationships. “What was clear from…

  • Deviate

    “Deviate” is a short Super 8 film made specifically for the Memorial Project. While friends of Dan Moyen, who died of AIDS in 1990, talk about him, the viewer sees old footage of Dan expressing his feelings on the matter.

  • Dyke Pussy

    A miniature cat spins on a turntable to electronic music. Selected Screenings: Gaze Film Festival, 2009 (Dublin, Ireland); Queersicht Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2009 (Bern, Switzerland); London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2009

  • Sparklene

    This is a story of the transformative effects of sparking, speculative frenzy. It questions whether embodied contact with objects and living creatures can occur outside fixed clichés of perception so that eyes can have multi-sensory effects.

  • Accidental, The

    This film is about inappropriate attention to sensory experiences other than the visual while driving and in response to an accident. Sound, touch and taste may disrupt safety to others and might threaten public order when not kept in check by the dominion of the visual. Dogs know all about this.

  • New Atlantis

    Landscape and drive-thrus transformed by real estate speculation are reanimated with magical thinking and an embodied language written in breath on a windshield. “A bird’s mind can hold only one sample. How to come here and how to return. This loop has been corrupted by blooming rot. The cat knows the curse to reset it.”

  • Q – Case

    Daniel and Eli are about to have their five-year anniversary, but little does Eli know that Daniel has been hiding a dark secret all those years. Meanwhile, an FBI agent has been put into a coma under mysterious circumstances. Evidence leads Agent Mueller and Dina Pendrell to investigate the presence of “Extra Queerestrials,” but are they chasing after the wrong suspect? Will Eli and Daniel get their Happy Anniversary? Selected Screenings: Out on Screen, 2009 (Vancouver, Canada); Reeling Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2009 (Chicago, USA); Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Pittsburgh, USA)

  • Peking Turkey

    Chris Wong takes his French-Canadian boyfriend “homo” for Christmas, despite his traditional Chinese parents’ disapproval. With the dramatics of three languages (English, French, and Chinese) swirling around the table, Pierre tries to make a bond with Chris’ parents and find the approval he wants. Audience Award for Best Short at the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, 2009