Film Categories: sexuality

  • CHRISTEENE “Bustin’ Brown”

    In “Bustin’ Brown,” the fourth installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, CHRISTEENE confronts the ever-present bastardization of anal sex from mainstream bourgeois heterosexuals by returning “da buh-hole” to its rightful owners.

  • CHRISTEENE “African Mayonnaise”

    In “African Mayonnaise,” the 6th installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, Celebrity gets Fucked.

  • Beauty Must Suffer

    “Beauty Must Suffer” is an homage both to J.K. Huysmans’ novel, “Against The Grain,” and to the personal experience of a weekend spent with Andy Mantegna, a porn star whose rise was just as quick as his descent and subsequent death. The film attempts to approximate the hazy memory of that debaucherous weekend in 1994 among the garish grandeur of an old Victorian flat saturated in baroque décor. The setting’s opulence could not have contrasted more with my larger life context at the time, I was living in a van, with just a backpack full of belongings, including Huysmans’ novel.…

  • What I LOVE about being QUEER

    34 beautiful queers. One big question.

  • Transforming FAMILY

    “Transforming FAMILY” jumps directly into an ongoing conversation among trans people about parenting. It’s a beautiful snapshot of current issues, struggles and strengths of transexual, transgender and gender fluid parents (and parents-to-be) in North American society today.

  • Kiss

    An experimental reinterpretation of Andy Warhol’s 1963 silent short film of the same name, “Kiss” recontextualizes his protest against the Hays Code’s time restriction of onscreen kissing as an impassioned indictment of laws that prohibit and punish homosexuality in certain countries. Featuring a cast of performers hailing from countries where these laws exist transforming an expression of love and desire into a political protest, “Kiss” artfully challenges and resists the sanctioned condemnation and persecution LGBTQ persons confront. Selected screenings: Sicilia Queer Film Festival (2012); Schwule Filmwoche Freiburg – Freiburg International Gay Film Festival (2012); Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and…

  • Hawker, The

    “When I was a kid in Singapore, the same person served me chicken rice every day. I didn’t know if that person was a man or a woman, and that was awesome.”

  • Lust Life

    Madeleine, caught between a painful past and an uncertain future, must come to terms with the loss of her lover, Claire. Making her way through Paris, Madeleine follows Aubrie, a beautiful and elusive woman who happens to work at the café below Madeleine’s apartment. – Inside Out LGBT Film & Video Festival French and English with English subtitles

  • Fuckbuddies

    Two men meet up at lunchtime for some fast backseat action, but the money shot may not be as expected. – Inside Out LGBT Film & Video Festival Spanish with English subtitles

  • Teens Like Phil

    Inspired by the alarming increase in real-life tragedies involving high school bullying and suicide, “Teens Like Phil” tells the story of a gay teen, Phil, and one of his classmates, Adam, who brutally bullies him. The film explores the complicated and painful circumstances surrounding this relationship in an effort to better understand the roots of this epidemic. Phil’s story is ultimately a tale of survival and transcendence from this cycle of abuse.