Film Categories: sexuality

  • ANCESTRIES

    An anagram of “resistance,” ANCESTRIES is a layered piece that encodes the dialectics of colonialism, de-sexualization, desire and resistance. An Asian is seduced by, and in turn, seduces a Caucasian whilst simultaneously reframing and performing two arias from Samson et Delilah by Camille Saint-Saëns. ANCESTRIES suggests possibilities for resistance vs. outright rejection by having the Asian turn the colonized culture against itself. At the same time, it brackets the Western de-sexualization and feminization of Asian males (and high voices), while simultaneously exemplifying and subverting the stereotypes of submission. The use of male bodies also calls out the worship of hard,…

  • 7 LETRAS (7 LETTERS)

    Jesús has a secret and he’s about to share it.

  • The Age of Insecurity: Bed Buds

    After a night out, two buds talk where they’re most comfortable – in bed.

  • An Evening with The Impostors

    For more than a decade, Mirvish Productions operated La Cage Theatre in downtown Toronto. The theatre’s resident performers, The Impostors, have earned rave reviews over the years but it’s the show’s final number that gives them a major standing ovation. In An Evening with The Impostors, the group prepares to bring their high-glam drag spectacle to the small town of Port Hope, Ontario. The Impostors are ready, but is Port Hope ready for The Impostors?

  • Death Of A Bathhouse

    Combining footage from the final days of St. Marc’s Spa with interviews from Toronto artists Sky Gilbert, Keith Cole, Brad Fraser, Drasko Bogdanovic and Shane MacKinnon, The Reading Salon looks at one of Toronto’s longest running bathhouses through the lens of the artist.

  • Euphemism

    The death of the Id and the Ego of a hit man as he embraces nature. Inspired by Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and applied into an imaginary world of a man with a gun and a pact with his tribe.

  • Going Very Steady

    Going Very Steady is a film about the Id, finding one’s identity in a world governed by authority, and society’s Super Ego as it appears as a menacing, marching work force.

  • Motion

    Motion recalls a Kerouac-like adventure. A protagonist out to find love while coming to grips with the male ego as seen through a voyeuristic perspective. Functioning on the fringes of reality as perspectives shift and contort around the filmmaker, who finds solace, a woman, and religion on the journey as well as the feeling that life is fleeting.

  • One Foot In The Grave

    The questions of freedom and the cost of society’s overconsumption are raised in a graveyard where dead military men have been buried.

  • Process

    Experimental texture dictates the plot of Process, which explores male/female relationships in crisis.