Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

A joyride through San Francisco's butch scene takes gleeful aim at Quentin Tarantino's overblown hyper-masculine sensibilities.

The world and concerns of transsexuals -- their lives; relations between transgender persons and homosexuals; issues of cultural, ethnic, erotic, and gender identification; transitioning with and without hormones and surgery -- are communicated through interviews, video collage, and music.

First, he scratches the right cheek, then, on the seventh try, the director's ass takes to the air and floats away like a prick.

What do you get when you ask your 92-year old devout Jewish Nana and a 72-year old gay stranger questions you've only dared to dream of?

"It was a night of passion, a passion so intense it makes you miserable..."

It's been a long time coming.

A gay man recalls his first experiences in America after emigrating from Vietnam, recollecting such diverse memories as the seductiveness of K-mart, paper-thin walled apartments, and the secrets of homosexuality that only library books can reveal.

More paramedic footage

A dramatization of Napoleon's exile to the Isle of Elba, accompanied by a brief historical dissertation.

Romance between two youths from the neighboring families.

Sophia's Homecoming reminds us that the devastating personal effects of the massive social dislocations caused by apartheid can never be erased. Sophia, like so many other women, becomes a self-reliant provider for her family, working as a domestic for a white family in Windhoek for 12 years. When her husband Naftali finally finds a job, she returns home with the dream of resuming her former family life. She quickly discovers that during her absence her sister Selna has replaced her in the affections of her children - and her husband.

In this film the author looks back on his own artistic career, resuming his film (‘EXPERIMENTAL SKETCHES. 4,200 frames not moving away from home’), a semiabstract work, filmed on Super-8 format, and literally put onto 35mm format. […] Collage as radical realism in order for home-made Super-8 to force its way into 35mm market world. It is the film that travels, that sees the world, and sketches will no longer be sketches to everyone’s eyes because we will move from the daily the handmade to the industrial, from the diary to biography, from biography to hagiography, from hagiography to, inevitably, poetry. — Ana Isabel Aréjula, Madrid, 2002

A slice of San Francisco life in the summer of ’93. Matt and Jo sit together in their back yard and talk about their daddy/boy relationship, transgender, life/love, tattoos and tomato plants.

Explores the magic of objects and transformation. Inspired by the boxes of Joseph Cornell, who lived on Utopia Parkway (Queens, NY) nearly all of his life.

A gay youth in crisis with his homosexuality tries to get rid of his problems through religion. In his case, a strict Christianism. How these opposing forces interact is the subject of the film.

Mixing samba, sex, and lovers' lies, this beautiful short is a visual meditation on sexuality, loss, jealousy, and intimacy.

These are the Ajanta caves, paying tribute to a glorious past and the invincible spirit of man. They are some of the finest examples of rock-cut temples in the world and, indeed, a pioneering endeavour in the whole of Asia.

Documentary and fictional medium-length film made in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with testimonials from cinematographic technicians and assembly of material in super-8. Among the images, the scenes from the movie "Patíbulo" (Joel Yamaji, 1976) and the material not found in a room at the School of Communications and Arts at USP.

The Pangcah people living in the urban area used to compete and win the dragon boat race every year, but only as hired agents in a festival event of the Han Taiwanese. In 1995, a team of Pangcah contestants decided to compete in the race under the names of their community and homeland, 'C'roh of Yuli, Hualien', striving for glory to honour their true origin.

The first public gay wedding in Taiwan has stirred up considerable controversy, including a local campaign to ban this film. It tells the story of Yosheng and Gary, the first gay couple to have a public wedding in Taiwan. Their wedding was held in conventional Taiwanese fashion: a wedding banquet with friends and family and even the mayor of Taipei as the promised wedding moderator.

An examination of 100 years of African Americans being murdered in movies.

A video installation in which Satyrs grapple in a limousine as it drives through the tunnels of New York City. While one satyr chases its tail in the front seat, another attempts to make a drawing in the condensation-coated sunroof of the limousine using the third satyr's horn.

Two bears in two door frames

She is a girl in a limited situation, a short about the reproductive rights of women and the right to decide.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Bern Federal Police revealed they had been keeping activists from far-left groups in Western Switzerland under surveillance for years - among them, Claude Muret. In his first film, Jean-Stéphane Bron deploys a humorous and affectionate gaze to chronicle the story of these ex-“cops and outlaws” who come from a generation marked by clashes… of ideology.

The issue of coming out to your family is not so easy to many of us, especially if you are from a traditional culture where you don't even have the right translation for "gay". What are the consequences of coming out to your family and friends? This is a documentary of 21 individuals sharing their own experiences.

This short film was inspried by the work of B-movie director Ed Wood (Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen or Glenda). It's the story of an 'average gay male's' panic-stricken run through the city streets after learning that he is HIV-positive. It's also a comedy. Really. Shot in just two days with a budget of just two thousand dollars, 600 feet of b&w 16mm film on a Russian hand-crank camera, with no filming permit and a skeleton crew. Ed Wood would have been proud.

A review of Great Britain's Sexual Offenses Act of 1967 on the 30th anniversary of its passage. The Act decriminalized sexual behavior between consenting adult males over 21 and was preceded by a fierce political battle in Parliament, in the press, and among the people.

After twenty years of absence, the filmmaker returns to his home town of Ras Baalbeck, Lebanon to remember the life of his grandfather, who had moved there from Homs, Syria many years before.

An experimental videotape addressing issues of surveillance and technology that allow us to see where we normally cannot. Highlights several narratives revolving around video surveilliance -- not to reiterate the conventional privacy argument, but rather to engage the desire to watch surveillance materials, and society's insatiable voyeurism.

A 16 mm. film by Brian L. Frye.

When 16-year-old Jean-Luc Battuz met Lonnie and Theresa Selam's family on the Yakima Reservation in Washington State, he immediately felt he was where he belonged. Over a decade later they would adopt him as their son, and he would move to British Columbia in order to live near them. Though he is white and European, Jean-Luc's affinity with the spiritual values of North American Native cultures drew him into a relationship with the Selam family. French Man, Native Son recounts the unique exchange between Jean-Luc, now 28, and his adoptive parents. He will always retain his original heritage, even while actively participating in the life, responsibilities, and traditions of the family who have welcomed him into their lives.

Kentridge has combined images from documentary films and photographs together with moving puppets as well as his animated drawings.

Whilst playing in the French countryside, a young boy finds himself transported into the midst of a Second World War battle.

The film tells the story of Esterina Zuccarone, seamstress and pioneer of film editing, through photographs and the protagonist's own words; it's a documentary, but it's also a poetic tale.

Hand-developed and unedited, this roll lived in my camera from March to May 1995: A trip to New Orleans, a train ride, the death of a dear friend and artist. This film is the author of itself; its trace function leaves me behind.

This first work in the HalfLifers' Action Series plunges into a world of frantic heroes trapped in a continual crisis of dissolution and reification. An ordinary domestic setting is recast as a psychoactive landscape in which the concept of function becomes situational and fluid. Only through the strategic application of organic and inorganic “devices” can this zone be successfully navigated and the mission be saved.

Anne McGuire’s tortured evocation of psychic disarray

Howard (Ilja Peltonen) is a florist without ability to speak or hear. One day a bank is robbed near by Howard's florist shop, and Howard accidentally kills the man who robbed the bank. From then on, the police start chasing Howard through the city and the body count gets higher by the minute...

Valdeir is an insane coroner who takes pleasure in his work with corpses. Much gore and horror in short film Directed by Dimitri Kozma and Leonardo Borelli. Totally in black and white, it is a strong movie of pure terror. Tribute and references to José Mojica Marins and Alfred Hitchcock.

A road movie about Scots in Canada. "Flight" traces the culture they perpetuate and through a series of portraits, follows how emigrants express their identity often generations after their families have moved there.

Short film by Gertrude Moser-Wagner

A man is bombarding his environment by throwing everything he owns out of his balcony. The peace is lasting only for a short time, until a fly starts to trouble him again.

A video-art which mixes images snatched during one of the Venice Biennales of contemporary art, images snatched in the heart of Venice and a confidential voice off.

Fanny, a beautiful young woman, enters Fydjys, a classy jewelry store in Brussels, and asks to see an emerald ring. It is rare, explains the proprietor, found by an antique dealer in Prague...