Genres: queer

  • In Passing

    A short lesbian art erotic film about a chance encounter between two women, complete strangers to each other, in the city of Belgrade. An impulsive attraction between them is driven by a strong sensual connection and the story of pursuit builds up quickly in one afternoon and enchanting night. Free of dialogue and with an original musical score, this short film can be likened to a fantasy or dream.

  • The Little Deputy

    Trevor tries to have a photo taken with his father.

  • A MOOR

    A MOOR – (or a “room” inverted) synthesizes the multiple meanings of securing, uncultivated land, and an ethnic population in its portraits of Caucasian sex tourists who blur into one another through the POV of an unheard and unseen Asian escort. The dynamics of power and race revealed through the clients’ speech and not allowing the Asian character that forms the core of the film to be seen or heard.

  • BLISSED

    The unspoken issue of LGBT domestic violence becomes an allegory for LGBT racial dynamics. Drawing inspiration from the claustrophobic tensions of Tennessee Williams, it distills the undertones between classes in society, the plight of immigrants in Canada, the double-edge of charity, and the transference of violence from people’s fetish and fear.

  • IN DIFFERENCE

    A conversation between a young banker with an older homeless man traverses a downtown meridian surrounded by commercial buildings, populated by homeless people at night. Drawing inspiration from Samuel Beckett and Dialogues of Plato, IN DIFFERENCE fuses Man with Myth and Metaphor to comment on the veneer and prejudices of contemporary society.

  • CONTENTUS

    CONTENTUS takes its cue from the meanings of the (latin) word – to strain with exertion, to hold together; in which three parallel stories intersect in a contemporary allegory of labor, loneliness, prejudice, power and place. Connected by isolation, everyday cruelties and unheard stories, the underrepresented characters straddle the metaphoric and the real. An unseen Asian escort’s clientele of Caucasian sex tourists blur into one another, domestic tensions and violence of a professional man and his young live-in immigrant lover, and an encounter between a young banker and his older homeless doppelgänger in a city meridian populated by High Finance…

  • Outside The Ring

    Through the lens of a unique violence recovery program in Toronto, this documentary provides a glimpse into the lives of women and transgendered survivors of violence and the impact Boxing has had in their healing. The film follows the ways in which participants challenge social constructs that dictate that women must not experience their own feelings of aggression. The Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club is the first all-women’s boxing club in North America. In 2007, a small group of women boxers active in social justice created Shape Your Life, a project designed for women and trans survivors of violence. The goal…

  • Oya: Something Happened On The Way to West Africa!

    I wanted to tell a tale not often heard about gender and Indigenous Yorùbá Spirituality. Ọya: Something Happened On The Way To West Africa! follows my journey as a Queer gender-non-conforming Nigerian returning home to connect with Òrìṣà (African God/dess) tradition, and follow a trail back to the powerful legacy of my great grandmother, Chief Moloran Ìyá Ọlọ́ya.  This personal and political story vibrantly investigates the heritage of command, mythology, gender fluidity, womyn’s power and the hidden truth behind the power of indigenous Yorùbá spirituality.  As I encounter obstacles of a national strike and anti-gay marriage legislation to find the roots of the practice, will I be able to find affirmation…

  • Doom

    Doom is a slapstick caper of a kidnapping turned on its head; a farcical take on Stockholm Syndrome. A group of businessmen and bankers are corralled from the streets of their work for the purpose of detention, observation and ultimate indoctrination by a group of unlikely bandits. Their captivity initially frightens them but through the treatment by their strange yet benevolent captors, the men quickly view their corporate transgressions with disdain as they reject the freedom they are eventually offered.

  • CHRISTEENE “Big Shot”

    In “Big Shot”, the 7th installment of the CHRISTEENE video collection, rabbits roam free across the sinister landscape of CHRISTEENE’s fuck fantasy.