Genres: queer

  • Exquisite Corpse

    The “Exquisite Corpse” is a drawing method in which three individuals draw part of a body without knowing what the other parts looks like. The results are often bizarre accumulations of characteristics and variations on themes. Here, three curators interpret this method in the form of a rich complex programme of short films on the queer body. Our bodies have often been the site of obsession, whether through our expression of love, sex, and sexuality or hatred of the abject, the ill and the repudiated. The beauty of the Exquisite Corpse is the conceptual interpretive shifts that take place mimicking…

  • Canada: Sperm Bank of Satan

    In 1999 a U.S. preacher called Canada ˜the sperm bank of Satan“ after the Supreme Court extended the definition of spouse to include same sex couples. This film is an oblique response. “Canada: Sperm Bank of Satan” comments on Canada-U.S. relations: if Canada is a “sperm bank,” who is on top? This queer road movie has fun exploring Canadian identity and the way it is shaped by Canada’s relationship with the United States.

  • Manipulator

    A master brings out his slave and attempts to control him. Things go terribly wrong. Every touch of the slave produces a distortion that encompasses the master. Who exactly is the manipulator? The slave, the master, or the filmmaker?

  • grotesque

    A devil makes a violent attempt to change himself into a heavenly creature. His evil process backfires when he is confronted with the creatures from within.

  • Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat, The

    “The Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat” is a 16-minute, 35mm photo-collage animation . Using a surreal fairytale style, the film combines music and animation to tell the story of a girl awoken one morning by a mysterious seagull, which crashes against her bedroom window. Following the bird into an abandoned garden, the girl discovers the edge of the world. Perched on this edge is a single tree bearing a tangy red fruit, guarded by raucous birds. When the girl scares off the birds, and takes a bite of the fruit, she catapults herself into a startling, violent and extended…

  • Thin Bleeding Walls

    Recounting the painful memory of a mother with a problem and a brother’s means of coping.

  • Divas: Love Me Forever (Festival Version)

    “Divas: Love Me Forever” is a comic-serious documentary about female impersonation, desire, fantasy, self-acceptance and the search for love. Edimburgo Cabrera, the Cuban-Canadian director and videographer (Latin Queens), follows six black female impersonators through Toronto’s vibrant gay club scene as they search for home, family, and love. The life stories of these six divas become a prism illuminating gay life in the Caribbean and North America from the 1970s to the present. A diva is a female impersonator who stands out amongst her peers because of her superior performance talents, devoted public following, and public advocacy on behalf of her…

  • No You Cyant Touch It!

    Shot in black-and-white and sepia tones, “No You Cyant Touch It!” incorporates an understanding of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality as it deals with Black women’s favourite obsession – hair – from an interesting perspective. The film’s creatrix and subject examines the link between her locks, her Black, queer identity, and other people’s understanding/assumptions of who she is and where she “belongs.” The stark tones and political subject matter are mediated by Rhizome Syndrigast Coelacanth Flourishing’s lyrical poetics.

  • Rub

    Masturbation is one of life’s sweetest distractions. This experimental film is an homage to the pleasures a girl can experience, all on her own.

  • Invitation

    Zoe and her city flat-mate Shane have never told their conservative country parents they are lesbian and gay. So when their parents turn up unexpectedly, soon followed by a succession of Zoe and Shane’s weird and wonderful friends, the scene is set for a very queer night.