Genres: queer

  • Cast

    “Cast” creates a claustrophobic and haunting space where people and things invade worlds in which they do not normally belong. Lifeless dolls are heaped inside drawers, dolled-up life size figures lie motionless on a windy beach at the water’s edge; a chair rocks in an empty room, a mirror reflects and observes, and a chest of drawers is caressed by the sea. The film has a dramatic sensibility that sets up a false promise of narrative. Its structure, instead, is akin to that of dreams where different scenic spaces collapse and the inanimate and animate interchange. Wide-angled perspectives, shifting points…

  • Swollen Stigma

    “Swollen Stigma” nourishes the fantasy of its protagonist’s inner life and proposes a lesbian imaginary which takes leap into risk and displacement. The film opens with an entranced seated woman working her fingers through a single strand of hair and proceeds to explore her lived imaginary in which desire and fear interlace. She re-visions different moments in time which are haunted by an absent lover. Like a playful fairy princess, this lover appears upside down in an armchair, hanging legs-down from the ceiling, playing dead on the floor, or eating roses; her body continuously permeates the woman’s reality. The film’s…

  • Backcomb

    In “Backcomb” the demonic is unleashed on domestic space. It takes the form of two of femininity’s mildest tokens, hair and embroidery, that serve here in the creation of a sexualised surrealist experience. Within the claustrophobic space of a table-lay, a forceful and erectile mass of hair comes alive and slithers across its surface. The hair probes into vessels and punches through the cloth till finally order overturns and all smashes to the ground.

  • #01 hygienist

    A woman is seeing her hygienist and finds herself in an unexpected situation.

  • Men’s Boutique

    “Men’s Boutique” contemplates what to do (and where to do it) as a gay man gets older.

  • Four Feet

    As Veronica ponders her current relationship, a psychic appears out of nowhere and gives her an answer she never expected.

  • I Want To Be a Secretary

    The ladies in the typing pool have always believed in recycling. The footage for “I Want to Be a Secretary” has been reclaimed and reworked from a selection of all-but-forgotten post-war recruitment films encouraging the modern girl to pursue a secretarial career. What other path is open to an independent-minded young lady after all? What are the secrets of the boardroom? And what is the meaning of the firm-but-fair Miss Ingall’s mysterious smile? Our plucky young career gal heroine is about to find out. I Want To Be A Secretary: A career girl’s adventure in the typing pool.

  • Damned if You Don’t

    “‘Damned if You Don’t’ is a real prize. Beautifully shot in black and white, it blends ‘conventional’ narrative technique with impressionistic camera work, symbols, and voice-overs to create an intimate study of sexual repression… “[It begins with footage from] a stylish old potboiler about an isolated convent, filmed directly from the television screen, in silence, but with plot narration and plenty of dramatic close-ups. Its tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif for a young lesbian who watches it and the lonely nun she pursues and seduces. As the two women’s lives get closer to joining, voice-overs from…

  • Happy Hookers

    “Happy Hookers” is an independent documentary exploring the secret world of male sex workers in Bombay, India, where homosexuality is still a criminal offence. Following the lives of three young men who live as sex workers, the film considers social taboos regarding HIV, homosexuality and the commodification of sex, while also shedding light on the differences between the spaces occupied by male and female sex workers.

  • Today, I Become A Man

    “Today, I Become A Man” is a 9-minute documentary about a man who tries to pass as a “real” drag king by pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man.