Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • the body of Others

    the body of Others, is an experimental video that engages the tensions between sexuality, identity, visibility, representation and the body, as it relates to queer subjectivity. The video asserts a dynamic relationship between queer subjectivity and the representation of queer identities presented through ideological systems of representation, as performed by the queer body. The video questions the boundaries and distinctions between the visible/invisible, personal/political, private/public, body/technology, human/animal, interior/exterior and normal/other. the body of Others presents a body that is unstable and drifts over itself into space. The body fuses with the unknown and becomes an amalgam of skin, flesh, fur,…

  • Scenesters

    A group of friends play a party game where they give each other clues to guess the titles of queer films.

  • The 6 Lesbians You’ll Date Before You Die

    Lesbian dating in a nutshell.

  • The 6 Gays You’ll Date Before You Die

    Gay dating in a nutshell

  • Solstice Moon

    A glamour girl is lost in a play while trying to identify herself sexually in a male dominant world.

  • unexplained as yet

    The vernacular of gender identity is ever growing and changing, yet many continue to live beyond these definitions, defying language and category; we are unknown, akin to mythical creatures. Multiple exposures of a single roll of Super 8 film allow a brief glimpse into the heart of this chimera: to be unidentified…unexplained.

  • What I Want / What I Have

    Incongruities between body and gender become an obstacle for lovers as they navigate the painfully awkward rift between dysphoria and desire. 

  • The Foxy Merkins

    Two lesbian hookers wind their way through a world of bargain-hunting housewives and double-dealing conservative women in this subversive buddy comedy. An homage to and riff on iconic male hustler films.

  • Monster Mash

    A Halloween hookup turns into something more for a pair of morbid misfits costumed as Horror Cinema’s most iconic female characters. Monster Mash is a queer valentine to horror cinema, paying homage while vilifying the genre’s homophobic elements through subversion, appropriation and recontextualization, The film is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils.

  • MY WOUNDED HEAD

    A transwoman puts on makeup. The makeup and her movements are a metaphor for her transformation, as well as the dialectical revealing and concealment of herself from the scrutiny of the outside world. Taking its title from Marc Chan’s composition, MY WOUNDED HEAD is an experimental short film that investigates issues of representation, preconceived notions and reflexivity. Marc’s music, featured in the soundtrack, is itself a reflexive reinterpretation of a set of chorales from Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden” (“O Sacred Head Now Wounded”).