Film Format: Digital File
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Gay Goth Scene
For a young boy school is a living hell. He decided to put an end to it. “Gay Goth Scene“ is a mixture of short film & music video, that deals with a worldwide social disease: bullying.
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Dependent
An estranged couple meets one last time to decide the fate of their relationship. Featuring James Bunton, Regina the Gentlelady, Jeff Harris, Owen Pallett, Katie Ritchie and Judy Virago.
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Hoshi Neko (Little Star)
This 16mm B&W cut-out animation borrows narrative tropes from early Atari video games, silent films, and anime cartoons, offering a weird story and hybrid aesthetic. The narrative is based on the imagined adventures of the singer’s lost cat, Hoshi. Hoshi eats a koi fish, who emerges angry from his digestive system. The koi enlists the help of a pug to exact revenge, and the three characters embark on an epic chase through the cosmos. Their journey brings them through wormholes and across poisonous planets where their skin is melted off by acid rain.
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Magical Coincidence
Ben Lim, a super 8 filmmaker, meets Amy Craig, a graduate student, when she attends Ben’s screening with one of his friends. The arrival of a mysterious message sends them both on a journey together down the rabbit hole, where they enter into a shifting world of, love language and coincidence. A unique film, since the filmmakers used a coin toss to dictate decisions within the story, casting and production. Winner: Pitch Competition, Reel Asian International Film Festival, 2011.
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100 Butches #9: Ruby
A catholic convent schoolgirl remembers her first gay crush.
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Joaquin La Habana – LebenZwischenWelten (Joaquin La Habana – Living Between Worlds)
Joaquín La Habana – Lebenzwischenwelten is a documentary portrait of the transformation artist Joaquín La Habana, an androgynous Cuban-born singer, dancer and entertainer, who currently resides in Berlin, Germany. As he plays effortlessly with changing gender and culture, his opera-trained voice switches easily from the baritone of a rebel to the soprano of a seductress. Now in his sixties, Joaquín La Habana reflects on his life and career during the ’70s and ’80s as part of New York City’s provocative underground scene. The film contains impressive archival material, including Joaquín La Habana’s performance at the famous nightclub, Studio 54.
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Auto Portrait/Self Portrait Post Partum
SPPP is an autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship. The film examines my own emotional responses in the context of how this experience is culturally represented. Painstakingly handmade, the visual and sound treatments evoke different phases of the relationship (from passionate attachment to escalating conflict to inexplicable breakup) and the various phases of the grieving process – from denial, to yearning, to anger, to final liberation: a healing release effected through the making of this film. A triptych of self-portraits-entire camera rolls, each subjected to different methods of extreme interventions on the…
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We Are Animals
In this alternate-history fable set in the 1980’s AIDS Crisis, a closeted young man is thrust into the midst of an anti-government coup and finds that the animal within is stronger than the monsters that oppress.
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Jason’s Dad
Days after his father’s suicide, Jason, a disgruntled teenager, intercepts a series of text messages from what appears to be a mistress. Using his father’s cell phone he sets up a meeting to confront the woman for answers. When they meet neither one are prepared to face the real truth about Jason’s dad.
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Stormcloud
Vi-a lesbian and artist-is heartbroken after her lover, Charlie, leaves her. She spends her days and sleepless nights in Charlie’s pyjamas, alternately painting her “inner storm cloud” and abstract images of vaginas. These are strewn about her home amid other signs of her unraveling life. When two bright and happy Evangelicals arrive at her door, Vi lets them into her home and begins questioning them on the nature of love and sin. While the two Christians, who are engaged to be married, attempt to control the conversation, Vi takes it down a path they find increasingly uncomfortable. Gradually an unexpected…
