Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • still

    A meditation on holding on in isolation, made with a personal cell phone and limited equipment at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic in Ottawa.

  • Mach Stem

    Part one in a series, Mach Stem is an essay about skincare, depression, memory loss, and the atomic bomb. Formulated from a discarded master’s thesis film, Mach Stem records the shadow of a long depression and the process of convalescence. Exploring sites of research, memory, and legacy, the film travels between continents to piece together one’s own identity that was previously lost at sea.

  • Broth of Vigour

    A different kind of bone broth. A boiling broth stewed from science fiction, competitive cooking shows and the erotic recesses of the imagination, Broth of Vigour is a tonic for the body and mind.

  • How To Clean Your Closet

    How To Clean Your Closet combines glitched clips from adult films with sound bites from an old tape cassette with the same title. Cleaning your closet couldn’t be more fun!

  • frostbite

    A lonely lighthouse keeper rescues his fantasy: a frostbitten man on the rocks.

  • A Kiki with Bobby Bowen

    This short documentary-style interview film takes a quick look at some key terms that originated within queer Black and POC communities (such as the ballroom scene), tracing their cultural significance to contemporary mainstream popular culture.

  • fruit machine

    Mixing fact and fiction, this film tells the story of Dr. F.R. Wake and his bizarre creation, which became known as “the fruit machine.” In the 1960s, Wake was hired by the Canadian government to devise a series of tests that would expose homosexuals working in the civil service. This modern retelling reveals that Wake may have had a few secrets of his own.

  • Atalanta: 32 Years Later

    A retelling of the age-old fairy tale of the beautiful princess in search of the perfect prince. In 1974, Marlo Thomas’ hip, liberal celebrity gang created a feminist version of the children’s parable for mainstream TV’s “Free To Be You and Me”. Now in 2006, Sachs dreamed up this new experimental film reworking, a homage to girl/girl romance. “Very gentle and evocative of foreign feelings.” George Kuchar In Atalanta: 32 Years Later (2006) Lynne Sachs takes as source material the 1974 TV show Free To Be You and Me—already an update on the classic tale of the “beautiful princess in…

  • Viva and Felix Growing Up

    For the first three years of my twin niece’s and nephew’s lives, I used my 16mm Bolex camera to film them growing up in New York City with their two dads (my brother Ira Sachs and his husband Boris Torres) and their mom (Kirsten Johnson). The film ends with a Gay Pride Day embrace.

  • Believe

    Using photo-booth animation, two girls try to put together a patchy faith.