Genres: queer
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LOVERFILM – eine unkontrollierte Freisetzung von Information | LOVERFILM – An Uncontrolled Dispersio
“Blurring the line between friends, lovers and maybe even complete strangers, Brynntrup presents a video catalogue of his brushes with intimacy, intercut with grainy stills and retro porn.” – Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto 1998
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Mead, Wrik – Super 8 Films
Video compilation includes: Deviate Gravity It Helped My Mind Relax What Isabelle Wants Jesus Saves Haven
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Michael, A Gay Son
An improvised dramatization of a family counselling session with Michael, a homosexual, and his family. The session is facilitated by an actual social worker, who specializes in such counselling. Each family member is given the opportunity to explore his or her feelings about Michael being homosexual. The film concludes with Michael’s evaluation of his decision to reveal his homosexuality to his family.
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Moffie Called Simon, A
“A Moffie Called Simon” is a collage of photographs, letters, TV footage and dramatic sequences presenting the case of Simon Nkodi, a black gay activist and student leader in South Africa, who has been in jail for nearly two years. Based on letters from Nkodi and his lover, Ray, a Canadian gay journalist, “A Moffie Called Simon” also explores connections between anti-apartheid struggles and gay liberation.
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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.
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My Cunt
What do Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson Lee, and your grandmother have in common? A litany of cunts.
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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…
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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…
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Nice
Yet another girl sitting by the phone waiting for a roving boy to ring. The same old story – until she meets his latest girlfriend…
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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.
