Film Categories: sexuality

  • Click

    In this powerful short, two men transcend time and space with just one click. Soon after Jake and Jonnie make contact in a virtual chat room, Jake finds Jonnie along the East River. Their sincere romance unfolds in the streets, coffee shops and bars of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is only after they wake up the next morning that they feel compelled to reveal their secret identities, and are forced to confront the nature of their “true” selves.

  • Don’t You Worry, It Will Probably Pass

    “Are you there? A girl who is attracted to both boys and girls?” “Don’t You Worry, It Will Probably Pass” is an unencumbered look at three girls who responded to this ad in an internet chat room. This was the same classified ad the filmmaker, Cecilia Neant-Falk, had placed in a magazine some 15 years earlier when she too was a lonely and confused teenager. Using the internet this time, she begins her exploration of the coming out experience for a new generation of queer girls. From the overwhelming response to her ad, she found three young women, My, Natalie…

  • Straight Sex

    When two old friends, a gay man and a lesbian, decide to conceive a child the “old-fashioned way,” things get complicated.

  • Wet Dress

    An aloof and stunning butch is haunted by images of her dream femme one hot, steamy West Hollywood summer.

  • Komrades

    A remarkable exploration of the lives of Russian soldiers and sailors on national service. Horrified at the suggestion of homosexuality, these brothers in arms are both physically affectionate and devoted to each other. They reveal a tantalizing variety of male bonding which is rare beyond the ranks of the armed services.

  • Nesting Season

    Affectionate bunnies romp through the seasons, displaying the cycles of lesbian desire.

  • Clamp

    A sexually explicit experimental video. The goal of this work was to create an anti-pornographic work that celebrated marginal sexualities. The subject ignores the viewers’ participation in her pleasure, creating a hermetically sealed auto-erotic experience.

  • Shape of the Gaze, The

    A hand-processed and optically printed film. I manipulate the film process to disrupt viewing expectations on a textual and aesthetic level. This re-positions the subject and discourse of gender ambiguity available in the gaze. Specifically, I attempt to interrupt and re-shape the triadic gaze operating between the subject, viewer and filmic apparatus. By shifting the discourse of the gaze, the film implicates viewers in the gazes between the lesbian filmmaker and her self-identified butch subjects. “Post riot-grrl ethos informed a number of the best works… [including] Maïa Cybelle Carpenter’s hand-processed vision of lesbians and machines, ‘The Shape of the Gaze.’”…

  • Ultima Notte, L’ (The Last Night)

    Tony and Chloé, a young couple in their twenties, have secluded themselves in a hotel room. They will spend one last night together, a night to remember. Alliocha, a young foreign boy met on the street, initiates this voyage. The three will share the utmost intimate experience, an experience that will change them all. The next morning, Tony and Chloé’s innocent youth is left behind. With shattered hearts they enter adulthood and everything that lies ahead.

  • black-eyed

    “black-eyed” is a powerful look at domestic abuse between gay partners, with a plot twist that’s as shocking as it is wrenching. Founder’s Award for Most Promising Filmmaker, Outtakes Festival, Dallas 2004