Genres: narrative
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We Are Animals
In this alternate-history fable set in the 1980’s AIDS Crisis, a closeted young man is thrust into the midst of an anti-government coup and finds that the animal within is stronger than the monsters that oppress.
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Jason’s Dad
Days after his father’s suicide, Jason, a disgruntled teenager, intercepts a series of text messages from what appears to be a mistress. Using his father’s cell phone he sets up a meeting to confront the woman for answers. When they meet neither one are prepared to face the real truth about Jason’s dad.
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Stormcloud
Vi-a lesbian and artist-is heartbroken after her lover, Charlie, leaves her. She spends her days and sleepless nights in Charlie’s pyjamas, alternately painting her “inner storm cloud” and abstract images of vaginas. These are strewn about her home amid other signs of her unraveling life. When two bright and happy Evangelicals arrive at her door, Vi lets them into her home and begins questioning them on the nature of love and sin. While the two Christians, who are engaged to be married, attempt to control the conversation, Vi takes it down a path they find increasingly uncomfortable. Gradually an unexpected…
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Dispatches From The Future
A grieving woman who spends too much time in her car starts to think that it might be haunted.
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Elephant Dreams
Five storytellers take off from a physical characteristic of the elephant, much like the fable of the blind men, where each constructs a different whole from a fragment. Elephant-related images are then inserted into their stories, subjectively and associatively. “Elephant Dreams” is essentially about the action of memory and the imagination at work. Everyone makes his or her own story. “Davis plays with the power of suggestion and our knowledge of filmic language to undermine a simple relationship with story and image, and to create a collage of simple pieces that add up to a complex and allusive whole. This…
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Stop Calling Me Honey Bunny
It’s a journey most of us are familiar with. One that starts with lust, passion, intense love and joy and eventually dwindles down the road of routine, familiarity and day to day banalities. Once flirtatious and sexually charged exchanges give way to grocery list reminders and ‘honey, do you have to chew like that?’ type requests. But what happens when a couple of bunnies, who started off their relationship shagging like… well, bunnies… find themselves in the same bind? ‘Stop Calling Me Honey Bunny’ follows our bunny couple on their dedicated journey to revive their sex life. From role play,…
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Beyond the Mirror’s Gaze
In this utterly endearing animation by Iris Moore, a couple gets to know themselves and each other by exchanging their eyes, genitalia and facial features with different ones. The exchange of body parts (with the biology and playfulness of Potatohead toys) for the sole sake of new corporeal experiences, has us question our own preconceptions about the body’s rigid immutability. — Mix New York Queer Experimental Film Festival (2013)
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Happy Birthday Chad!
Today is Chad’s birthday and his out-of-town boyfriend has sent him a gift in the mail. Soon after Chad receives the gift, Billy arrives to deliver a package of his own. Chad soon discovers that this birthday may not have the happy ending that he was expecting and that his cheating ways may finally come back to bite him!
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Click
When our intrepid heroine Darcy gets her heart broken on her 30th birthday, her friends rally around to help her recover. To lift her spirits, they concoct a two-step plan: 1. Get revenge on the heartbreaker 2. Get Darcy fast hookups via online dating sites Mayhem ensues.
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Film Concerto in Hanging Major
As the heartbroken Papageno from The Magic Flute is on the brink of ending his life, we pause to examine his options. “Film Concerto in Hanging Major” is a highly informative, yet darkly humorous, guide into the most effective ways of committing suicide.
