Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • One Fine Morning

    It’s back-to-school in the fall of 1988. In this bittersweet comedy, Goth high school senior Adam gears up to face Matt, the boy of his fantasies. Through a series of surreal asides, Adam reveals that he penned Matt a song the previous school year. Now, after a summer of wondering, the morning has come that Adam will find out if Matt understood the song’s hidden meaning.

  • Masturbation: Putting the Fun Into Self-Loving

    Dr. Sigmund Winston, along with the help of his trusty sidekick Billy, teaches the students of the ’50s how to put more excitement into self-loving. Boys from the local YMCA and visual aides give the audience a simple step-by-step approach to masturbation.

  • Night Blue

    Maani is restless. Nina is obsessed. Maani shuttles from hotel to airport on the international fashion circuit, while Nina holes up in her studio, dreaming of designs for her antique fabrics and delicate beads. This morning Maani arrives at Nina‘s studio and finds herself curiously suspended. She wants to stay, but Nina is sure she cannot. The characters and story in this film are the result of a collaboration between the actors and director in seven months of improvisation.

  • Miracle, A

    “A Miracle” is the music movie for the song “A Miracle” by the Hidden Cameras, written by Joel Gibb.

  • Ride

    “Ride” was filmed during the Friends for Life Bike Rally, an annual fundraiser for the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation (www.pwatoronto.org). It was filmed entirely with a Super 8 camera pipe-clamped to the bicycle basket of Leif Harmsen’s Canadian Tire Special, over 700 km between Toronto and Montreal. The blissful and high energy six-day event whips the many riders into top shape and inspires many others to generously support a great charity. It also connects two of Canada’s greatest cities with simple, environmentally friendly pedal power.

  • Penetration

    There has never been a better medium/content match in the entire history of art. Video and porn were made for each other. Sick of all the documentaries about the making of porn movies, Harmsen gets down to the folks who actually use it. Guest voices include Belle Isabelle and her boyfriend Sam, sex columnist and performer Sasha, UK performance artist Charlie Pulford, playwright and poet Sky Gilbert, and Super 8 master Peggy Anne Burton. Made at Trinity Square Video as part of the Tranz Sex Tech residency.

  • I Believe (In the Good Life)

    “I Believe” is made of Super 8 stills of people in my community, shot one frame at a time, and gay folk church music by local musician Joel Gibb and his band the Hidden Cameras. Up to 3,600 portraits can fit onto one roll of Super 8. Many are shot at night with a flash. I set out to capture a social atmosphere on film. The experiment proved to me that despite our many flaws, I do believe in the good of life. (LH)

  • Wawashkesh

    In loving memory of Rob Johnston (1959-2003), whose anarchistic upstart opulence will always be a major source of inspiration and happiness.

  • Malled

    Follow Tyler, an incredibly well-dressed beacon of young queerness, through the midwestern mall where she works. She tries to sort out her future while surrounded by dancing girls, beauty queen children, and constant consuming.

  • No Soy un Oso (I Am Not a Bear)

    An interview and a debate over what makes the man a bear and why he would resist belonging to a group of big hairy men.