Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • Still Point

    “‘Still Point’ serves as Barbara Hammer’s definitive reassessment of 70’s cultural feminism. She literally places side-by-side the romantic image of her companion walking and stretching under the sun in a landscape and the gritty realism of a methodical garbage picker on the street of New York city, pushing a shopping cart and moving on to the next waste container. Our world view must encompass both realities, the film indicates. Privilege can’t obscure vision.” – Chick Kleinhans, The Film/Video Showcase Presents the Films of Barbara Hammer

  • Surviving Memory

    “Surviving Memory” is a film about the role of loss in the formation of identity. It is a narrative intercut with documentary fragments of political actions, which connect the various characters to event through collective memory. Through autobiographical spoken texts, the narrator relays fragments of a relationship between two Jewish women. The fragmented texts speak of the relation between these women as well as recounting various past and contemporary historical events of fascist and neo-Nazi activity (and resistance), Lesbian/Gay rights, Pro-Choice and AIDS demonstrations. While these instances tell a personal/political story about loss, they are also meant to elucidate the…

  • Suspicious

    “An energetic video exploring the theme of self-identification and the significance of sexual and racial labels.” – Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto, 1995

  • Tangled Garden

    “Tangled Garden” is an experimental documentary triptych exploring representation, desire and meaning from a queer perspective – a glance, which is philosophical, political and erotic. Produced from 1992 to 1994. “Tangled Garden, Act I, Scene II” (12 min. 1993) begins the filmmaker’s journey by exploring the history of the purebred Jersey cow, and suggesting that when we look at the “other,” it is often ourselves we see reflected back. “Tangle Garden, Act II, Scene II” (13 min. 1992) examines the male nude in the history of Western Art, and offers a personal interpretation of the eroticism inherent in these images…

  • Tangled Garden, Act II, Scene II

    Enter an imaginary gallery of male nude figures where homoeroticism in the history of Western Art is uncovered, as the patrons become part of the exhibit. The film teases and tantalizes as it explores masculinity and desire through a queer reading of the male nude traditionally censored. This experimental documentary constructs a desired desiring body using key works from a lover’s discourse, including denial, difference, fear, lust and rapture.

  • Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax)

    “Parallax is the apparent change in position of an object resulting from the change in direction or position from which it is viewed.” Confusion, underlying meaning, and unspoken truths are often associated with the dialectic of sexual communication. Mingled with the intensity and unpredictability of a “one night stand,” they generate unique sensations – mixed emotion, risk, excitement. The film employs formal devices in a manner which is simple yet effective. Its subject matter – sexuality and communication – gains depth and poignancy through the artist’s decision to shoot the film’s three scenes for projection in a double-screen configuration, providing…

  • Between You and Me

    “Between You and Me” (Tangled Garden, Act III, Scene I) looks at the internalization of homophobia and fatalism present in mainstream representations of the AIDS pandemic, as it reflects on the conflict between grief and desire in a gay man’s psyche. The film challenges the viewer to turn their red ribbons into real action both on the streets and in bed, and to resist the industry of AIDS. Also available on QUEERS ON THE VERGE.

  • Thick Lips Thin Lips

    A musical experimental film about racist and homophobic violence.

  • Twisted Sheets

    One straight woman’s life takes a remarkable turn for the better when, tagging along with a friend to a lesbian bar, she runs into the current female squeeze of the boyfriend who recently ditched her.

  • Two/Doh

    “Two/Doh” is an evocative poetic pastiche exploring the public and private spaces of desire, and its intersection with the cultural and erotic connections between two women of different origins: Persian/Armenian and South Asian/Sri Lankan.