Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • 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.

  • Hair Pie

    A tale of sweet revenge between two bake-off buckaroos.

  • Breakfast with Gus

    A cat’s eye view of Gus’ attempt to get attention, and, most importantly, breakfast, from his busy humans. Eventually Gus does what any self respecting cat would do and takes matters into his own paws.

  • Baking with Butch, Episode 1

    “Seduce Her with Dessert” Guest Chef Lex Vaughn talks with Host Nina Levitt about how to pick up ladies with her specialty “Poached Pears on Puff Pastry.” What starts out as a suave preparation begins to deteriorate as Lex gets more excited — with hilarious results!

  • I Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses

    What’s sexier than a dyke caressing the edge of her glass? A bevy of local ladies lining up to take theirs off!

  • 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

  • Burning Down the Dream

    A funky examination of cultural appropriation, sweatshop labour and what you can do about it.

  • Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance

    Mushroom soup, an anti-gay bashing march, and a surprise dinner guest are the background for this story about one young gay man, his semi-dream lover, and his mischievous dyke roommate. Set in Toronto, “Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance” is a comedic portrait of one man’s failed attempts to avoid a relationship before it even develops.

  • Christian Porn

    When the Saskatchewan Opposition party whipped Regina into a frenzy over the spending of tax dollars on screening gay porn, all hell broke lose. To overcome the uproar and win the hearts of the Christians, in steps BROTHER LOVE.

  • Sudden and Unexpected

    “Like the beginnings of his films, the endings too are halting. In ‘Plotzlich und Unerwartet (Sudden and Unexpected)’ Udo Kier shuts a door after saying goodbye to the camera, signaling the abrupt end to a maze-like plot which loops around itself, so that the order of events remains opaque (we see the same event from three different perspectives but they seem to occur sequentially).” – Alice Kuzniar, Audacious Allegories: The Queer German Cinema