Film Categories: sexuality

  • Lez Be Friends

    After making a short film about her best friend Abbey’s struggle to accept her sexual orientation, Lily is assumed to be the true subject of the film. While Abbey, the film’s star, becomes a legend in the lesbian community, Lily is trapped in a netherworld between hetrosexuality and homosexuality, continually trying to set the record straight.

  • Touch

    “Touch” is an uncompromising work about emotional scarring, the cycle of abuse, and the perverse nature of desire. In a poetic and highly stylized treatment, the film details the tragic journey of a physically and psychologically abused teenaged boy from early childhood trauma through to adolescent dysfunction. Composed in three articulate sections (Captivity, Liberation, Withdrawal), “Touch” is a disturbing tale of a young boy who is held captive for a period of years. When he is mysteriously set free after this long period of deprivation, he is found, hospitalized, psychoanalyzed and treated, but he is unable to adapt to the…

  • Sexual Meditations: Office Suite

    This film evolves from several years’ observation of the sexual energy, which charges the world of business and the qualities of palatial environ which this energy often creates. It is one of the most perfect films that has been given to me to make. (SB)

  • Sexual Meditations: Hotel

    This film takes its cue from that ultimate situation of Sex/Med/masturbation – the loft-and-lonely hotel room. It is thus easily twice the length and complexity of any other in the series. (SB)

  • Sexual Meditations: Motel

    This film was originally photographed in 1970 in regular 8mm. It was, a decade later, blown up to 16mm so that it could join the rest of the “Sexual Meditation” series.

  • Sexual Meditations: Open Field

    This films takes all the masturbatory themes of previous “Sexual Meditations” back to the source in pre-adolescent dreams. OPEN FIELD is in the mind, of course, and exists as a weave of trees, grasses, waters and bodies poised and fleeting at childhood’s end. The scene is lit as by sun and moon alike and haunted by the pursuant adult. (SB)

  • Sweet Boy

    “Sweet Boy” reveals an imaginative lesbian world where erotic fantasies bring sexual healing. Filmmaker Karen Everett’s thoughtful, stylized and highly personal memoir focuses on the psychological and spiritual dynamics of Mommy/Boy role-play in dyke relationships. Sexy ageplay with a maternal femme catalyzes a wild, energetic boy in Everett’s psyche. Beautifully shot, this compelling Jungian autobiography dramatizes the filmmaker’s inner struggle, sexual adventures and lesson in mothering herself.

  • Rodeo Rhododendron

    A queer, multi-layered, romantic film about cowboys that mixes TV footage of the Calgary Stampede (re-filmed on Super 8), still photos, and footage of rhododendrons and cowboy go-go dancers.

  • Tom

    “A dazzling experimental documentary about notorious cineaste Tom Chomont. Tom narrates his recollections and transgressions against a dizzying array of found footage, video, super-8 and photographs. At moments, he appears in front of the camera, alternately flamboyant or fragile. His revelations cover a broad scope from sadomasochistic desire through existential vulnerability to an incestuous relationship. With this extraordinary portrait, Hoolboom creates a different kind of biography film, one that eschews traditional mimetic realism in order to depict the reminiscences of a fading life lived in the throes of image culture.” – Diane Burgess, Vancouver International Film Festival “An uncommon biography…

  • Bear Girl: Dog Boy

    Animal folklore is portrayed through cut-out animation in order to paint the complexities of surviving as a sexual being in the Twenty First Century.