Genres: queer

  • Valley of the Chapstick

    A recovering lip balm addict takes it one day at a time.

  • Tough Enough

    “Tough Enough” is a short experimental film which looks at how being outside of a mainstream gender identity can shut you off from even the simplest touch. As a young queer child, touching people of either sex can be extremely loaded. What can one do to confront this? This filmmaker decides to be tackled repeatedly in order to “shock” their body into feeling.

  • sisyphus

    ‘Sisyphus’ is a silent 16mm film shot on a Bolex exploring a journey that never ends. I made this film at renowned experimental filmmaker Phil Hoffman’s Film Farm workshop in Mount Forest, Ontario. Originally, I wanted to create a simple statement about overcoming depression. The ultra short narrative in ‘Sisyphus’ uses heartbreak as a metaphor for depression, since depression is just that – being heartbroken about life. The creative process and the practice of handmaking films speaks to treating life as a work in progress, thereby positively embracing the permanence of Sisyphus in my life. The lush, organic imagery in…

  • Basement Girl, The

    Abandoned by her lover, a young woman finds comfort and safety in her basement apartment. Mundane routines, a diet of junk food and the warmth of the television insulate her from the pain and betrayal of her ill-fated relationship. Eventually, The Basement Girl emerges – transformed and ready to “make it on her own.” “The Basement Girl” breaks new cinematic territory by employing multiple formats from traditional 16 mm film to toy cameras including a modified Nintendo Game Boy digital camera and the Intel Mattel computer microscope. “Midi Onodera’s latest film is a witty and wonderful meditation on how women…

  • They Only Come Out At Night

    Will has put his life on hold to nurse Gertrude, his dying mother, who only wishes to die with dignity, and soon. At odds with his sister Cathie due to her conservative religious beliefs, Will’s closely proscribed life is suddenly changed when he encounters Victor. Victor, a vampire, helps fulfill Gertrude’s wish, only to become emotionally entangled with Will. When Will is attacked by Cathie and her goons, Victor must act to save Will in the only way he can, but has he done the right thing?

  • Game On

    “Game On” examines the glory of competition, the tension between opponents, the strategies of the game, the sweat of the players, the taste of victory. Shot on Super 8 with music by Kids on TV.

  • Pursuit of Happyness, The

    This film explores the work and travels of John and Frank Navin, two gay brothers from Chicago, who create modern easy-listening music under the moniker The Aluminum Group. The film documents a music tour of Northern Italy where their musical past and future meet. With Cynthia Plaster Caster.

  • Cracker Barrel My Ass

    One mistificata version, but divertentissima – and one scratching taken in turn – of the history (true) of one chain American of restaurants that has decided to fire all the dependent gay or such suspiciones.

  • In Cairo

    Exploring the reasons why people travel, RM Vaughan recounts his journey to Egypt in a series of slow, reverse dissolves that show the narrator standing, like a classic tourist, before the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx.

  • JO FM

    ‘JO FM’ is a film about a radio DJ who is kidnapped by an obsessed fan. Tina wants Star to make her one last tape, one tape to remind her of the way radio, society and her life once were. ‘JO FM’ is a film about two women coming to terms with their perceived roles in the world. What motivates Tina, the obsessed fan, to kidnap Star, the idolized DJ, is that Star represents the way radio once served Tina. Tina doesn’t understand why market place value has replaced public interest. Ultimately, ‘JO FM’ is about the shape of today’s…