Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • Not That Kind of Christian!!

    “Not That Kind of Christian!!” is a feature documentary that explores gay and lesbian Christians’ struggle for acceptance in the Episcopal Church, the “schism” their activism threatens to bring to worldwide Anglicanism, and the ways in which activists such as these can shape our personal liberties at the highest institutional levels. While the film celebrates the achievements made by queer Anglicans as they fight to transform an oppressive Christian tradition into a modern force of liberation, it never excuses the prejudices and abuses of organized religion, particularly in an era when the word “faith” is merely code for the nationalistic…

  • Cut

    “Cut” is a short animated film about a woman who gets a haircut on lunch and gets more than she bargained for.

  • In Every Dream Home a Heartache

    Kids on TV and Johannes Zits have together created a music video art piece based on Johannes’ visual work and the song “In Every Dream Home a Heartache” performed by Kids on TV. The video takes the song’s plotline of a rich man falling in love with a rubber doll and uses it to critique queer consumerism and the advertising industry’s targeting of the gay-demographic — turning peoples desires into a fetishization of newly built condos and lavish funishings. The rubber doll is portrayed by KOTV member John Caffery is covered with green-screen paint and super-imposed with gay male pornography…

  • Greg

    Greg Sells has been described as the “Rain Man” of women’s music. Some assume he is autistic. Some think he is a deviant. The female musicians accept him, so why does everyone else want to label him? Featuring: Patrice Pike, Terri Lord, Gretchen Phillips, Ginger Leigh, Sara Hickman, Shelley King and Dayna Kurtz

  • Four Genderfilms

    These four award-winning films by Catherine Crouch explore gender issues from a feminist perspective with humour and sensitivity. Vanilla Lament (6 min. 16mm 1997) Utilizing a mix of live-action, scratch and stop-motion animation techniques, “Vanilla Lament” is a humorous fantasy rendering of a sudden romantic break-up and its aftermath. This hand-crafted film, inspired by the experimental filmmakers of 1960s, won numerous awards, including a silver plaque at the 1998 Chicago International Film Festival. One Small Step (30 min. 16mm 1999) Set in South Carolina on the eve of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon walk, “One Small Step” is a dramatic…

  • Secret Weapons

    “Secret Weapons” is an experimental animated filmic essay that tries to work through the emotional and political confusion that has shaped the way I, and many other young Queer Aboriginal artists, relate to the world. After looking at the films of Mike Hoolboom, my thoughts began to centre on the experiences of growing up under the fear of AIDS in the 1990s, and of the cultural loss and grief that has cycled through the Native community since colonization began. I divided the image into four channels to reference Hoolboom’s film “Frank’s Cock,” while also reinterpreting the framework of the four…

  • Crushed

    “Crushed” is a meditation on media through the eyes of grief. Can Dr. Phil mend a broken heart? This work pays homage to Midi Onodera’s “Basement Girl.” Commissioned for CFMDC ReGeneration.

  • Exquisite Corpses, The

    Absurd vignettes populate this tribute to cult films and Dada play. The genre of the musical is stretched and twisted to exhibit a bizarre cast of characters as they struggle against the confines of the film itself.

  • Shift

    A low-tech sci-fi story set in a disenfranchised, near-future post-Crash urban sprawl, a violent place with no one in authority. We meet the Switchcocks, an all-girl revenge gang who make their living by taking on vengeance contracts for other Glop residents, and running drugs. One night, Lexi, gang member by night, courier by day, hooks the gang up with the dangerously potent drug called ‘shift.’ They sample it and then they run amok, taking ‘vengeance’ on an Enclave drone – without a contract: for fun. Lexi awakens the following day and must deal with the aftermath and her own role…

  • Here We Are

    Constructed of footage and sound found on You Tube, “Here We Are” explores online watchers and their subjects. Low-resolution personal documents and family photos create this abstracted and voyeuristic video.