Film Categories: sexuality

  • Sex Without Glasses

    “The quintessential boy meets girl story, ‘Sex Without Glasses’ is a tale about relationships – of various kinds. This film has everything from alphabets (manual) to zithers, and features some of Toronto’s most celestial bodies.” – Anna Gronau

  • Sexual Meditation: Room with a View

    Directly in the tradition of “Sexual Meditation No. 1: Motel…” this “sequel” does explore further the possibilities of nudes in a room… (SB)

  • Shiteater

    “A five star gross-out, ‘Shiteater’ features a body in revolt… Andrew Wilson gives a tour de farce performance as the shiteater and Hoolboom’s camera work is never less than sublime.” – Gina Hampton, Herald

  • Sister

    In the attempt to find out how and why her sister died, a young woman discovers her sexuality. How her desire for women is held prisoner in the mourning and mystery surrounding her sister’s suicide. With a nod to the youthful fetish films of Anger and the J.D’s, scenes which begin light and fun with mod girls out on an adventure, grow dense and wet as sexual longing fulminates.

  • Striptease

    This is a documentary which treats the subject in terms of work, performance and sexuality. In striptease as in dominant cinema, women are presented as sexual spectacle, silent objects to be looked at. This film presents the dancers as speaking subjects, constructing a job profile from the point of view of the women who do the work.

  • Suspicious

    “An energetic video exploring the theme of self-identification and the significance of sexual and racial labels.” – Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto, 1995

  • Tangled Garden, Act II, Scene II

    Enter an imaginary gallery of male nude figures where homoeroticism in the history of Western Art is uncovered, as the patrons become part of the exhibit. The film teases and tantalizes as it explores masculinity and desire through a queer reading of the male nude traditionally censored. This experimental documentary constructs a desired desiring body using key works from a lover’s discourse, including denial, difference, fear, lust and rapture.

  • Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax)

    “Parallax is the apparent change in position of an object resulting from the change in direction or position from which it is viewed.” Confusion, underlying meaning, and unspoken truths are often associated with the dialectic of sexual communication. Mingled with the intensity and unpredictability of a “one night stand,” they generate unique sensations – mixed emotion, risk, excitement. The film employs formal devices in a manner which is simple yet effective. Its subject matter – sexuality and communication – gains depth and poignancy through the artist’s decision to shoot the film’s three scenes for projection in a double-screen configuration, providing…

  • Two/Doh

    “Two/Doh” is an evocative poetic pastiche exploring the public and private spaces of desire, and its intersection with the cultural and erotic connections between two women of different origins: Persian/Armenian and South Asian/Sri Lankan.

  • Warm

    Wrik Mead’s dreamy “Warm” suggests the comfort of an embrace as a pixillated naked body flailing against a crumbling ruin… is released from the anguish of containment by another man’s touch.