Film Categories: sexuality

  • Man Who Envied Women, The

    Jack Deller, a professor of Foucauldian and Lacanian theory, is left by his artist-wife after four years of marriage. Deller is played by two actors; the wife is never seen. Her voice is heard throughout – it governs the film. The camera pursues him on the image track, while her voice pursues her train of thought. The structure of the film is elaborated in a constant interweaving of fiction and documentary, narrative and theory, amidst issues of sexuality, aging, power relations, and political activism.

  • Mayhem

    “Mayhem” gives homage to Film Noir, soap opera thrillers and Mexican comic books, which generate the action. Perversely and equally inspired by de Sade’s “Justine” and Vertov’s sentences about the satiric detective advertisement, “Mayhem” looks at sexuality and violence in the movies. “Mayhem” links the screen, the bedroom, and the streets to generate a mosaic of the way modern culture sends mixed signals about sexuality to men and women. “‘Mayhem’ is more than a detective story; it’s a hypermodern melding of forms, an erotic send-up of slapstick with a heady dose of cultural nay-saying.” – Elizabeth Pincus, Gay Community News…

  • Mercy

    “Voyeurism, eroticism, violence and pornography are challengingly jumbled together: the result is a mixture of fluttery pictures which cloud what is real and what is not, making the questions that these films provoke all the more disturbing.” – Jane Headon, City Limits “‘Mercy’ shows no mercy as it dissects the games mass media play with our perceptions. It blends found footage, images and sounds into a flow that’s as revealing as it is overwhelming.” – New York Festival Catalogue

  • Mirage

    Typical imagery of a naughty wahine dancing while removing her sarong is looped and superimposed on images associated with Hawaii such as fish, surfers, volcanoes and the Kodak Hula Show. The sound is a loop from the Elvis song “Dreams Come True in Blue Hawaii” and the effect is haunting with a touch of humor. The juxtaposition of these three elements parodies a travel film enticing one to the islands by associating sensuality and sexuality with everything from Kahunas to Pearl Harbor. It is a kind of pop, twisted mantra invoking an exotic space that perhaps only exists in a…

  • My Addiction

    “My Addiction” is the story of Matt Flynn, a bisexual married man. He hides in the apartment of a young male hooker (Dick Large) claiming to be in love with the boy. He is finally savagely beaten by the young hooker. Matt returns to his wife and vows to love her. They proudly claim negative HIV status and toast their love.

  • My Cunt

    What do Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson Lee, and your grandmother have in common? A litany of cunts.

  • My Summer Vacation

    “My Summer Vacation” is an elegiac, poignant contemplation of the brevity of youth and the ephemeral nature of love. Along the way we see the contrast betwen middle-class life and the sexual/drug underground. Joe, a young man in his early twenties, is on the “edge” of his youth. He has been given a film camera by his older lover (who is leaving town for the summer) and Joe decides to utilize the camera in order to find himself “the perfect summer boyfriend.” The first part of the film is a joyous, comic summer exploration of Church Street, Toronto and the…

  • Name Your Poison It’s a Scream Channel No. 5

    A nasty little movie about violation and contamination – physical, geographical and ideological. The sound, built and mixed on a 4-track cassette recorder, was culled from shortwave radio, Italian B-movies, and a perfume advertisement. Chernobyl, AIDS, and sexual assault in a lament for our times.

  • Nancy Boy Versus Manly Woman

    A dumb jerk (Karl) – who happens to be the author of the most wildly successful underground comic book ever – receives an urgent telephone call from his old skirt (Gretchen). Innocently believing she plans to beg for a reconciliation, he consents to a meeting at her apartment, only to discover she’s hanging out with a trendy group of intellectuals and balling them too. The shock proves too much for Karl for, despite his burgeoning popularity – bolstered by numerous talk-show appearances – Gretchen couldn’t give a rat’s ass about him. He’s still a lousy lay and she’s just now…

  • Nice Girls Don’t Do It

    “Nice Girls Don’t Do It” is a not-quite-conventional documentary about female ejaculation. While referencing some of the codes of pornography (i.e. out-of-focus, leather, explicit close-ups), the film clearly works against conventional pornography in its use of black and white film, text, and in its positioning of the spectator. The film serves less as a treatise than as an invitation to its spectators to fill in the gaps created by the film – to query, challenge, investigate, object, corroborate, perhaps inveigh against, but ultimately to create a space for others to speak about a part of female experience long-shrouded in silence.