Genres: narrative
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Little Devil
A troublesome, disabled fag hag absconds to London to find love and opportunity. But life deals her some unexpected twists when she winds up peddling drugs to the queer community and forms an unorthodox relationship with a washed-up gay male escort. On its surface, Little Devil is designed to be an entertaining, but controversial comedy-drama with some crazy and off-the-wall characters trying to get by, and ultimately find happiness, in a troubled and often unfair world. But scratch beneath the surface and it is a film that has a lot to say about perceptions of sex and disability while opening…
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Mindtease
The accidental reveal of a burlesque dancer’s “true” identity leads to a moment of self-questioning for the audience, and for one voyeur in particular, some deeper self-exploration.
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Finding a Place to Sleep
Based on stories my grandmother told me, I re-imagine while working as a cleaner the experiences of my ancestors during the Holodomor (forced famine) in Ukraine during the Stalinist-Soviet era. The “film” image is re-invented through digital video to enact a sense of ambiguity between authenticity and fiction, as can also be present in the act of oral storytelling. This is one chapter in “Stories for a Future Generation,” a series of shorts which together tell the stories of my family’s and my own migrations, and the inter-generational impacts of those upon our lives and on those of our family’s…
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Bakersfield,Earth
Guy tries to join an anti-evolution protest group because he thinks his alien race created humans.
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Scenesters
A group of friends play a party game where they give each other clues to guess the titles of queer films.
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The 6 Lesbians You’ll Date Before You Die
Lesbian dating in a nutshell.
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The 6 Gays You’ll Date Before You Die
Gay dating in a nutshell
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Every Monday
During a routine visit to his estranged Grandfather’s house, a young Boy accidentally destroys a gift with which his single-mother intended to win Grandfather back into her life. The Boy’s furtive effort to restore the object before his blunder is noticed, however, inadvertently inflicts a shift to an already complicated family dynamic.
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Goin’ Ape
A man driven to the edge seeks refuge in a go-go bar while sleaze bags plot against him. He saves a girl he once knew from unspeakable perils.
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Malody
A young woman, sicker than those who dare to eat the food at the all-night diner she’s perched in, catches a ghostly reflection of herself as a child. This inspires a topsy-turvy cataclysm, hermetically sealed within a huge wheel rolling through a movie studio.
