Genres: queer

  • The Sky After Rain (Payam Feili)

    Based on a poem by exiled gay Iranian poet, Payam Feili, written after the arrest of his boyfriend during Iran’s 2009 Green Movement protests.

  • The Sky After Rain (Shaya Goldoust)

    Based on Shaya Goldoust’s audio journals narrating her attempts at testing rigid gender boundaries, and the transphobic incidents which led to her leaving her family and motherland, Iran.

  • The Sky After Rain (Shyla Hope)

    Based on recorded audio interviews with Shyla Hope discussing her inner self journey to understanding and accepting her identity as a lesbian trans woman growing up in Iran.

  • Kafka’s Meditation

    “Kafka’s Meditation” is based on five short stories published by Franz Kafka in the early 1900’s, while he lived on the bank of the Vltava River in Prague. The stories serve as touchstones for feelings of longing, belonging, anxiety, paranoia, disorientation and ambiguous sexual identity. These conditions are explored through the lens of a person living with Body Focused Repetitive Behaviour (BFRB), a categorization of mental wellness that falls within the spectrum of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

  • Spanky’s

    Spanky’s is a queer coming of age story that pays tribute to the dancers of a small town strip club. Through the use of the artist’s personal collection of posters and water imagery a story unfolds at the intersection of sex work and queerness.

  • Burcu’s Angels

    For over 30 years, Burcu’s Angels was more than a store—it was a radical space of care. As the shop nears closure, this documentary blends archival fragments, poetic reflection, and community memory to honour a Turkish queer elder’s defiant presence—and the disappearing spaces that held generations of queer lives.

  • Auspicious

    This short documentary is a collaborative project exploring the union of two men who identify as queer and feminine in a conservative Hindu culture, where sexuality and gender roles have historically been very strict.

  • GALATEA

    When Galatea, an incredibly beautiful statue comes to life, her creator Pygmalion falls head over heels. Through their bond, the artist not only discovers true love but also that change and grief are just as much a part of life.

  • Call Tony

    Call Tony is an experimental documentation of our personal kink histories as we relate to the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives, one another and community. Our creative process was in part shaped by the pieces of history that we did but mostly did not find at the archives. Call Tony is archival itself as it documents us as queer living kinksters exploring safety, healing, belonging and play. Working together closely on this video led to the recording of a dialogue rooted in the shared and differing identities embodied in our friendship.

  • Spectacular

    Spectacular is an experimental sci-fi journey across Canadian landscapes, set to the score of electronic duo LAL. Featuring a celestial Travel Guide, and a crew of Lost Voyagers, these characters find each other and set off together, their very survival an act of resistance. The Guide sends out a signal, giving the Voyagers a point of reference for their longing, like a lighthouse in a turbulent sea. Wandering in a fractured world, we follow on their search for a fresh beginning, away from the noise and scarcity of their current predicament.