Film Categories: sexuality

  • Cast

    “Cast” creates a claustrophobic and haunting space where people and things invade worlds in which they do not normally belong. Lifeless dolls are heaped inside drawers, dolled-up life size figures lie motionless on a windy beach at the water’s edge; a chair rocks in an empty room, a mirror reflects and observes, and a chest of drawers is caressed by the sea. The film has a dramatic sensibility that sets up a false promise of narrative. Its structure, instead, is akin to that of dreams where different scenic spaces collapse and the inanimate and animate interchange. Wide-angled perspectives, shifting points…

  • Swollen Stigma

    “Swollen Stigma” nourishes the fantasy of its protagonist’s inner life and proposes a lesbian imaginary which takes leap into risk and displacement. The film opens with an entranced seated woman working her fingers through a single strand of hair and proceeds to explore her lived imaginary in which desire and fear interlace. She re-visions different moments in time which are haunted by an absent lover. Like a playful fairy princess, this lover appears upside down in an armchair, hanging legs-down from the ceiling, playing dead on the floor, or eating roses; her body continuously permeates the woman’s reality. The film’s…

  • Backcomb

    In “Backcomb” the demonic is unleashed on domestic space. It takes the form of two of femininity’s mildest tokens, hair and embroidery, that serve here in the creation of a sexualised surrealist experience. Within the claustrophobic space of a table-lay, a forceful and erectile mass of hair comes alive and slithers across its surface. The hair probes into vessels and punches through the cloth till finally order overturns and all smashes to the ground.

  • Milk and Glass

    In this film an interior landscape is scrutinised, and an apparent rational calm is revealed as suffocating. “Milk and Glass” is an evocative journey from surface to interior – a black-coated mirror, the hollow of a bowl, a cavernous throat; a brush demarcates a line of lip on a flat surface, a mouth doubles up with the bowl and is virtually spoon-fed till it chokes.

  • Red Like Meat

    A husband’s fantasies about his wife are stimulated with a bizarre fashion magazine. Both amusing and disquieting, the photographs in this magazine are those of the highly acclaimed Canadian photographer Janieta Eyre.

  • Men’s Boutique

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

  • I Want To Be a Secretary

    The ladies in the typing pool have always believed in recycling. The footage for “I Want to Be a Secretary” has been reclaimed and reworked from a selection of all-but-forgotten post-war recruitment films encouraging the modern girl to pursue a secretarial career. What other path is open to an independent-minded young lady after all? What are the secrets of the boardroom? And what is the meaning of the firm-but-fair Miss Ingall’s mysterious smile? Our plucky young career gal heroine is about to find out. I Want To Be A Secretary: A career girl’s adventure in the typing pool.

  • Happy Hookers

    “Happy Hookers” is an independent documentary exploring the secret world of male sex workers in Bombay, India, where homosexuality is still a criminal offence. Following the lives of three young men who live as sex workers, the film considers social taboos regarding HIV, homosexuality and the commodification of sex, while also shedding light on the differences between the spaces occupied by male and female sex workers.

  • 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.

  • VGL-Hung!

    Terry is an average gay guy searching for love, but hardly noticed in a looks- and body- oriented London gay scene. Coming home alone from a night of clubbing – again – Terry logs on to one of the many gay pick up sites available on the Internet. With nothing but timewasters and sleazy and strange men online, Terry almost gives up on meeting the man of his dreams until a magic website promises him otherwise. Suddenly given the powers to change his body to anything he describes himself as online, Terry starts to conjure up an array of gorgeous…