Film Categories: sexuality

  • We’re Talking Vulva

    A five-foot, six-inch rappin’ vulva, in an unexpected parody of the music video genre, leads the viewer on a complete description of female genitalia.

  • House Opera (it’s in the mix)

    This documentary is about the theatrical troup House of Pride, which consists of three main performers whose unique style combines both theatre and club cultures. House of Pride’s work transcends the usual boundaries of nightclub entertainment and performance art, bringing a new design of performance to theatrical spaces. The content of the performance smoothly blends together universal issues of gender and sexuality, individualism, spirituality, and the environment in a live theatrical show. House of Pride is a Montreal collective which combines outrageously athletic club-vogue-influenced choreography with searing confessional monologues.

  • Fires of Joanna, The

    Set against the bleak landscape of Depression-era Eastern Ontario, this film tells the story of Joanna McVeigh and her struggle to endure a harsh and unforgiving life. Epileptic since childhood and past the age of marriage, Joanna lives alone on a run-down farm with Frank, her alcoholic father. Bound by a promise to her dying mother and haunted by a dark and shameful childhood secret, Joanna illuminates her loneliness with secret imaginings and the pleasure of her one great gift, the ability to set fires with her mind. Joanna’s desire to break free from the confines of her lonely existence…

  • Lesbian Tapes (After Ilene Segalove), The

    A dyke whines about her boredom with vanilla sex and her lover offers suggestions to solve the problem. “The Lesbian Tapes (After Ilene Segalove)” is a remake of an early 1974 black-and-white video called “The Mom Tapes” by Ms. Segalove, in which Ilene is whining to her mother about her boredom. Her mother offers suggestions of things Ilene might do instead.

  • I Know a Place

    Producer: Jane Farrow Writer/Director: Roy Mitchell An intimate, funny, and completely engaging family photo album of a thriving little queer community buried in the heart of the rugged and isolated Ontario steeltown of Sault Ste. Marie. Bob Goddere is at the centre of this historic demi-monde. Director/writer Roy Mitchell accesses this intriguing story through his personal relationship with Bob and the community as someone who grew up in the Sault, and like so many young queers, came out at Bob’s parties in the 1970s and 80s. Conventional wisdom has it that good fences make good neighbours. But when you meet…

  • Sabor a Mi (Savour Me)

    A sensual and erotic short drama about secrets and desires. By covertly watching the most intimate moments of each other’s lives, two neighbours discover their mutual longing for each other. Selected screenings: Vancouver International Film Festival; Montreal World Festival; Northwest Film & Video Festival

  • Where Lies the Homo?

    “Where Lies the Homo?” is a film diary that explores the construction of gay identities through an analysis of media clips and coming-out tales. The narrative’s focus is on demystifying stereotypical representations of queerness in film while offering a pesonal view of growing up queer in a heterosexist culture. From Disney to underground gay cinema, from Hollywood divas to grainy home movies, this experimental collage juxtaposes and reinterprets many of our iconographic images of sexuality and family.

  • bed

    “bed” offers a playful new look at female desire and queer sexuality. Raw, edgy and sexy. Stunning black-and-white images of two women making love are juxtaposed with dreamy scenes of city life, illuminating the contrast between public and private life that many women, lesbian in particular, share. A rich soundtrack incorporates original vocals and ambient elements with sexy, funky trip-hop music. “This well-crafted work of art turned me on, made me wet and stimulated my good taste in art.” – Annie Sprinkle

  • Slip

    A therapist and her client have the same dream. For both women, its is moment of celluloid synchronicity.

  • Marquesa – Portrait of a Dominatrix, The

    This film sets the focus sharply on the often maligned and misunderstood world of sadomasochism. It gives us a glimpse into the life of the Marquesa, a Toronto Dominatrix who guides the audience on a journey through the SM community, its rituals and motivations. The marquesa explores and examines her own relationship to SM, and to the submissives that make the scenes possible. There is not a deliberate attempt to justify the practices of this unique sub-culture to the mainstream, but nonetheless, this piece and the Marquesa dismantle the myths and fallacies surrounding it by straightforward and frank talk. The…