Genres: queer

  • 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.

  • Minus

    “Minus” is a hand-processed, uncut, singular stream of movements. To take away: either to leave remnants of light or to leave remnants of rhythms. Entirely hand-processed and unscathed by the blades of the splicer. This is Chong’s first 16mm film. Inspired by Ritchie Hawkin’s Concept albums.

  • Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables

    “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animated adventure that moves through the city in search of safe havens, house music, romantic boys in record stores, distracting images from childhood, and finally into the place where we all want to be…all in the attempt to find a place of least-anxiety. Shot on Super 8 and blown up to 16mm, “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animation film that encompasses clay-mation, cell animation, and live action.

  • Hair Pie

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

  • Breakfast with Gus

    A cat’s eye view of Gus’ attempt to get attention, and, most importantly, breakfast, from his busy humans. Eventually Gus does what any self respecting cat would do and takes matters into his own paws.

  • 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!

  • Music Might Have Deceived Us

    “Chong brings queer chops into new sightlines with this elegant mini-essay on desire… A series of peek-a-boo mattes admit moments glimpsed in passing. Scars of seeing. The throbbing, hand-processed emulsion begins with clouds then descends through traffic to arrive at the aching towards some new moment of release.” – Mike Hoolboom, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, 2000

  • Burning Down the Dream

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

  • Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance

    Mushroom soup, an anti-gay bashing march, and a surprise dinner guest are the background for this story about one young gay man, his semi-dream lover, and his mischievous dyke roommate. Set in Toronto, “Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance” is a comedic portrait of one man’s failed attempts to avoid a relationship before it even develops.