Genres: queer

  • ALL YOU CAN EAT

    A collage of Super 8mm 70’s porn that is bigger than life in 35mm. A sexy and fun smorgasbord – all you can eat in five minutes.

  • Freeshow Seymour Compilation

    Freeshow Seymour is the collaborative effort of Allyson Mitchell and Christina Zeidler, who came together to explore their mutual crush on film-craft. Individually, they have been making work since 1994. In 2003 they both attended the Big Rock Candy Mountain residency at The Banff Centre, where they joined forces to highlight the work they are doing on candy and consumption and to explore their love of film. The basis of Freeshow Seymour is process. The two artists meet and see what evolves out of being together – whether it is films, music, crafts, performance or just thrift-store shopping. Their artworks…

  • Walnut Grove, mon amour

    After the death of his mentally ill father, artist RM Vaughan attempts to come to terms with the event by reconstructing his father’s emotional responses to the maudlin 70’s television program “Little House on the Prairie.” A blackly humourous meditation on death and grief, punctuated by crying scenes from the famously teary, famously cheesy television classic.

  • Hate

    Using his own lumpy body as a template, artist RM Vaughan explores differing reactions by various audiences to the blunt reality of having a non-commodifiable body in the age of supermodels. Alternately scathing and self-deprecating, “Hate” dishes out (and takes) some unhappy truths about “beauty” and art.

  • Rx

    A young gay man in a tiny Toronto apartment experiences a nervous breakdown, causing him to obsessively arrange and re-arrange his large knick-knack collection. Based on a true story, “Rx” is a bittersweet, funny chronicle of a mind turned frantic by fear, worry and novelty paperweights.

  • Coming Out at Work Is Hard to Do

    When you’re in the closet at work, “coming out” is always a drama. But no one expects it to be like the jaw-dropping experience recounted in this short, sharp and funny tale. Coming out at work is indeed hard to do. Awards: HBO Audience Award for Best Female Short, Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, USA

  • Closet Case

    “In this quintessential ‘coming out’ film, a grinding rhythm leads us through a passage of closed doors, as a man struggles to break free from his literal and social confinement.” – Images Festival of Independent Film & Video catalogue, 1995

  • Gloriously Free

    “Gloriously Free” is one of the first documentaries to explore the world of gay immigration, and the desperate search of five young men to find welcoming arms outside their countries of birth – where persecution and hatred of alternative lifestyles may lead to torture or death. What they find is Canada, leading the world as the safest haven for persecuted gays and lesbians. “Gloriously Free” is a powerful profile of gay immigrants to Canada. Among them are Al-Hussein from Jordan; Julian, blackmailed and blacklisted in his homeland of Mexico and a resident of Canada for three years; Bruno, who immigrated…

  • you wash my skin with sunshine

    With few childhood memories of her mother’s affection, Mullen mines old home movies for evidence. When she doesn’t find exactly what she’s looking for, she sets out to create a new family movie of her own, starring her surprisingly willing mother. A reflection on memory, loss, reconciliation and love.

  • Venice for Homosexuals

    A voyeuristic Venetian promotional film for the traveling male homosexual. Shots of hotties spied along Venice’s famed canals are accompanied by a piece of vintage Venetian opera.