Genres: queer

  • Gay Men and Hair Loss

    A look at the director’s fascination with gay men’s hair histories.

  • Clamp

    A sexually explicit experimental video. The goal of this work was to create an anti-pornographic work that celebrated marginal sexualities. The subject ignores the viewers’ participation in her pleasure, creating a hermetically sealed auto-erotic experience.

  • Shape of the Gaze, The

    A hand-processed and optically printed film. I manipulate the film process to disrupt viewing expectations on a textual and aesthetic level. This re-positions the subject and discourse of gender ambiguity available in the gaze. Specifically, I attempt to interrupt and re-shape the triadic gaze operating between the subject, viewer and filmic apparatus. By shifting the discourse of the gaze, the film implicates viewers in the gazes between the lesbian filmmaker and her self-identified butch subjects. “Post riot-grrl ethos informed a number of the best works… [including] Maïa Cybelle Carpenter’s hand-processed vision of lesbians and machines, ‘The Shape of the Gaze.’”…

  • Ultima Notte, L’ (The Last Night)

    Tony and Chloé, a young couple in their twenties, have secluded themselves in a hotel room. They will spend one last night together, a night to remember. Alliocha, a young foreign boy met on the street, initiates this voyage. The three will share the utmost intimate experience, an experience that will change them all. The next morning, Tony and Chloé’s innocent youth is left behind. With shattered hearts they enter adulthood and everything that lies ahead.

  • black-eyed

    “black-eyed” is a powerful look at domestic abuse between gay partners, with a plot twist that’s as shocking as it is wrenching. Founder’s Award for Most Promising Filmmaker, Outtakes Festival, Dallas 2004

  • filth

    The housecall in “Filth” doesn’t go quite as planned when a simple cleaning job becomes a nightmare. A pixilated tale which combines both the action in the film and the action on the film.

  • Something Else

    Fun things happen when you play with yourself. Change is one of them.

  • Muscledude 11×6

    After his initial success with on-line cruising, a newly single gay man tries to recreate the experience but finds that something is stopping him from meeting the right guy. Why do they all want to spank him, and what the hell is going on next door?

  • Mercury in Retrograde

    Betsy Brick is having a bad day. On the eve of her 40th birthday, the compulsive poker player crosses the point of no return – and all debts, spiritual and earthly, demand repayment. Starring Lea De Laria as the main character.

  • Abendmahl (Last Supper)

    Nice Karl-Heinz and his good-looking lover David live together in Karl-Heinz’ apartment. David is many things but faithful, which he at one point promised to be, is a thing of the past. One day Karl-Heinz surprises David in the middle of an orgy. Frantic with anger, he plans his shrewd revenge. He cooks an elaborate dinner which David misunderstands as a conciliatory gesture, until Karl-Heinz’ clever plan unfolds…