Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • 2076 (Elegy)

    In the year 2076, a cyborg finds moving images made by their great-grandmother in the last years of celluloid. Looking at the images, they are struck by the past, causing them to dig into their own memories, history, and identity.  Gleaned from images from the filmmaker’s life, 2076 looks at the ways in which familial history and queer identity are communicated through the archive/photographic image. Topically situated as the analog image is quickly disappearing, this film explores its virtues, illustrating the ways in which the past imbues small moments with power and glimpses of our past can speak and serve…

  • Take a Walk on the Wildside

    Wigs: shoulder length or long, naturally curled or straight. Shoes: pink glittery six-inch heels or black shiny two-inch heels. Nipples: stick on dime or dollar sized. A vibrant mesh of items line the shelves of one of Toronto’s oldest cross-dressing stores. Opened in 1987, Wildside was one of the only places to offer a full male-to-female transformation through makeup, clothing and hair. Still open today, Take a Walk on the Wildside provides viewers with a glimpse into a day in the life of the store. As five customers pass through, we peek into their colorful lives and reasons for visiting.…

  • Fever

    “Fever” plays with the film convention of “it was only a dream,” positioning the audience/viewer as both the (mind’s) eye of the dreamer, and as the voyeur of the same naked, sleeping figure. In fact, much of the piece explores looking, as dream figures gaze upwards captivated by something unseen, inter-cut with the camera examining the sleeper’s body. The film culminates with the dream looking back at the dreamer, startling him to wakefulness. Perhaps longing is really the theme here, as the camera caresses a body the viewer can’t touch, a dog chases a fox frozen in a glass case,…

  • Fluids

    6 years ago two artists attempted to make a queer, sci-fi porno: it failed. What emerged 6 years later out of its campy/tragic/melodramatic ashes is this erotic experimental documentary; a meditation on the intersections of failure and fetish as well the meticulous, accidental processes of constructing of cinema and identity

  • The Fruit of our Womb

    One night, Andrea, a young woman, comes back home from a party, a bit drunk. Her loving girlfriend Marie advices her to drink some water before going to sleep, so as to avoid an hangover. Andrea goes to their messy kitchen where she can’t find any proper water… until she sees a bottle of Holy Water, shaped in Holy Mary. She drinks it all. Some time after that night, Andrea finds herself vomiting a lot and getting bigger and bigger. Marie starts to worry that Andrea could be pregnant, but it’s impossible, Andrea never had sex with a man! They…

  • Experiments In Light

    This short explores light as a meditative state while encouraging the viewer to take a moment to be present within themselves. Taking footage from my narrative self portrait A Celebration of Darkness (2015) and recutting it to refocus on the various macro shots of crystals as an expansion on the theme of light and darkness. The images in this short was made possible by the LIFT/ImagineNATIVE 16 mm Film Mentorship in 2015, it’s post production was funded by the Ontario Arts Council Access and Development grant in 2016 and completed as part of my Media Artist in Residence with Workman…

  • Empty Nightclub

    Drawing on footage from Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, “Empty Nightclub” is a maze of urban streets, dark corridors and dance floors. The video weaves scenes from Orlando, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Toronto to take the viewer on a mysterious journey. Are we looking for the party or are we desperately searching for the exit?

  • The Curse

    Jesse is meeting up with an OkCupid date, Sarah. They’re meeting Sarah at her office after work. Jesse arrives at the office building, but they’ve got to change their diva cup before meeting Sarah. Every step along the way, they experience more and more frustration because they just can’t get the privacy they need. Eventually it all ends in a bloody mess.

  • Mino-bimaadiziwin (The Good Life)

    Mino-bimaadiziwin (The Good Life) came out of the Artist for Film residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point. I was excited about First Story’s walking tour with Elder Carolyn King. I was only able to participate with the aid of a wheelchair and allow others to push me around, it was my first time in a wheelchair. I documented this walk from that perspective with this manual timelapse on Super 8. Reconciling myself as a mixed-race indigenous Colombian settler “walking the red road” while being a person who lives with physical disabilities. Learning to live mino-bimaadiziwin as a settler to Turtle Island…

  • Film (Fill’em)

    This is a short black-and-white film in the Andy Warhol style. A male hooker (Dick Large) and a female stripper (Ima Chicken) live together in a squalid flat. The two argue and bicker about feminism, stripping, hooking, sex and their relationship. The filmmaker (referred to as “the little masochist”) is a client who is talked about and talked to as the characters formally address the camera which is recording their actions. Ima leaves; Ima returns for a reunion. Like real life, there is very little plot and only a hint of melodrama.