Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Sparklehorse

    With “Sparklehorse”, Gariné Torossian returns to the collage style of filmmaking explored in her earlier films, “Visions,” “Girl From Moush,” and “Drowning In Flames.” “Sparklehorse” subtly conveys, with characteristic poetry, the ways in which people communicate with and value each other in a world of spiralling meditation. The film is divided into three distinct sections: “Happy Man,” “Good Morning Spider” and “Hundreds of Sparrows.” “Happy Man” suggests a friendship conducted always at a distance – all of the images are presented using formal distancing techniques such as colour, collage and printing. At the same time the soundtrack combines a “repressed”…

  • Rape

    A painful story of a follow-up interview with a rape victim, Anita. In an effort to get to the truth, the police officer, Detective Voss, has the difficult task of asking probing questions about an event Anita would much prefer to forget. No less disturbing than the questions he asks is the truth that is finally revealed.

  • TRANSIT: Adventures of a Boy in the Big City

    A young Berliner reflects on how the radical changes to Berlin’s architecture and flow influences the emergence of his transgenderism. Ati walks through the city and shows the locations and spaces which help shape his daily life. Cruising in the Tiergarten, going shopping for suits or hardware, getting ready to dance foxtrot in Cafe Fatale, Berlin’s “queer carousel,” on Sunday night. A portrait of a thoughtful boy confronting the incompletion of both his body and his city.

  • Hair Pie

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

  • 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!

  • Burning Down the Dream

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

  • Venga!

    Butterflies in the stomach, boxing and babes on the brain.

  • Lovely Is Your Name

    A rock video in the laundromat.

  • Walnut Tree, The

    As a follow-up to the award-winning “Zyklon Portrait,” “The Walnut Tree” offers a striking combination of documentary and experimental approaches to examine Holocaust memory, the family, and the role of photography in history. Three girls in Dutch costumes stand posing for their father. This fleeting moment, made static in a photograph, is contrasted with the moving imagery of railway tracks – tracks that carried the death transports – now blurred with memory and time. In a matter-of-fact tone, Schogt’s mother describes how her parents tore several pictures out of the family albums when they fled the Nazis in 1943. The…