Film Categories: comedy
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Falling For Caroline
To win the girl of her dreams, a klutzy young woman must overcome a wardrobe malfunction and her own insecurities. Movie buff and hopeless romantic Darcy meets and falls in love with Caroline while fighting over a Sarah Waters DVD at a video rental store. With the help of her best friend Tia, Darcy sets out on her quest to woo and win the girl of her dreams. However, she must first overcome a wardrobe malfunction, her own extreme klutziness whenever she’s around Caroline and, most challenging of all, the very bad lesbian habit of overprocessing a good thing. “Sharply…
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Numerology
A short animation that unveils the mysteries of lesbians through the occult arts. NUMEROLOGY is a humorous critique of attempts to stereotype the lesbian community. Using the clean, minimal aesthetic of vector animation, numbers and letters become small characters whose actions subvert the expected course of the narrative. The content of the piece migrates from external to internal stereotypes and promotes the perception of individuals within a category. Selected Screenings: Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg, 2009 (Germany); Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2009 (Pittsburgh, USA); image + nation Festival, 2009 (Montreal, Canada)
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I’m Sorry, Sterling
Poet RM Vaughan muses on his relationship to 50s film noir tough guy hunk Sterling Hayden, and why he cannot make his life more like a 50s film noir masterpiece. Created by video/internet artist Jared Mitchell, the film inserts Vaughan into the rain-dappled, shadowed and dreamy world of film noir – turning the poet into Hayden’s moll, lover, and dumb broad. A film about living your life “in the right movie,” queer projection onto mainstream cinema, and the collision of fantasy and reality.
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How The Grinch Stole My Heart! (and my favourite sweatshirt…)
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE MY HEART! (AND MY FAVOURITE SWEATSHIRT…) borrows Dr. Seuss’ famous villain, the Grinch, and transforms him from Whoville’s mythical Christmas hating goblin into a modern-day ex-girlfriend who breaks Abigail’s heart. Crushed by her loss, Abigail falls into a world of lovelorn misery, obsession, internet stalking and self-medicating. But finally, Abigail is struck by a sense of renewed self-worth, and triumphs over her love for the Grinch…or does she? Selected Screenings: Queersicht Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2009 (Bern, Switzerland); Reeling Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2009 (Chicago, IL); Seattle Lesbian & Gay FIlm Festival, 2009 (Seattle,…
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Dike
A woman recounts the humorous story of a friend’s attempts to hide an excessive perspiration problem, which parallels her sexual re-orientation. Her bodily fluids are coming out before she does. This is the story of one woman’s struggle with compulsory heterosexuality.
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Dancing to Happiness (Tanz ins Glück)
Anna is working as a cleaning lady. Every night she cleans Helen’s office. Helen is a high-level broker working in the stock exchange. The two women live in different worlds and normally would never meet each other. However, they happen to have enrolled in the same salsa course. “Lightly written and deftly performed, ‘Dancing to Happiness’ is a pure charmer.” – Sean Bugg, Washington Metro Weekly. Selected Screenings: LesGaiCineMad, 2009 (Madrid, Spain); Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2009 (Germany); Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Festival, 2009 (Toronto, ON) Director’s statement In film school I had the wonderful possibility to…
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Son of the Preacher
Billy, the son of the preacher, secretly falls for a mysterious and pretty new parishioner. Constrained only to be able to look at her during Mass, he slowly lets himself punctuate the ceremonies with bits of his fantasies, giving rise to a succession of eclectic, often romantic, but sometimes naughty thoughts.
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Collagist, The
This charming and humorous animation is a collaboration with artist Marc Bell. “THE COLLAGIST” focuses on Bell’s hands as he assembles one of his works. This dynamic two dimensional piece incorporates drawings, paper cut-outs and looped animations.