Genres: queer
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Film (Fill’em)
This is a short black-and-white film in the Andy Warhol style. A male hooker (Dick Large) and a female stripper (Ima Chicken) live together in a squalid flat. The two argue and bicker about feminism, stripping, hooking, sex and their relationship. The filmmaker (referred to as “the little masochist”) is a client who is talked about and talked to as the characters formally address the camera which is recording their actions. Ima leaves; Ima returns for a reunion. Like real life, there is very little plot and only a hint of melodrama.
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Sum (Heart)
Based on ideas of Zen Buddhism and rooted in the 7 Grandfather teachings, Sum (Heart) is a rumination on death, grief and letting go. Starting out as a visual mourning song to Wendy Babcock, Mr Toqui Wong and Jack, empty landscapes represent the yearning for the company of dead friends. Water becomes a metaphor for grief and mourning, the ebbs and flows of nature reminds us of the cycle of life which transforms into a stark ode to a new day and new beginnings. I put all my sadness, prayers and hope into this trilogy while still aching for their…
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You’ve Got Tail
A mail carrier is in for a salty surprise! The pups at this house are a little friendlier than he was expecting…
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The Hares (Las Liebres)
Winter night. Mariano plays with his older sisters in a room on a country house. His father looks for him to take him hunting. Mariano would rather stay at home but his father takes him anyway.
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Pizza Roles
This meta-porn captures our experience, as genderqueer mixed race people of color, living in Seattle during the age of diversity incorporated. Opportunities to explore meaningful differences in experience are cast aside in favor of glossy, diverse, marketing photographs as the ultimate proof of corporate status.
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Brunch Queen
“Brunch Queen” is a hybrid film that follows a hilarious gay couple (who can’t stand each other’s company but are still very much in love) as they prepare for the opening night of a musical based on their infamous insult diner. This 11-min short doc is shot like an episode of a mockumentary television sitcom, like The Office or Modern Family. It’s a humorous and poignant exploration of love and aging in the LGBTQ community.
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Cruising Elsewhere
Whatever happened to Wohler Beach? Oral histories and spectral pornography resurrect memories of a once legendary gay beach. “Cruising Elsewhere” won the Jury Award for Best Short Film at the 2017 Tampa Bay International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. “CRUISING ELSEWHERE is a formally daring – and thoroughly embodied – exploration of gay desire and the utopian possibility of that desire existing unabashedly in public.” – Jules Rosskam
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Crossing Bridges
A gay Asian man reflects on his experience coming to Canada from Indonesia and learning to embrace his sexuality identity, and culture. In this reflective documentary, Rama provides a window into his journey as he revisits places communities and LGBTQ organizations that have helped him to build bridges to overcome the challenges that he faced as an ethnic gay man and immigrant to Canada.
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A Small Part Of Me
A transgender teen prepares to make his acting debut playing a male leading character in a youth play. While rehearsals are in progress, his friends and chosen family band together to help remove him from a difficult living situation. A short documentary about coming out and coming-of-age in a small mountain town in British Columbia.
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Violet and June
You know that feeling when you realize that everyone you know is going to die and so nothing you do will ever be of consequence in comparison to the movements of the universe and then you accidentally fall in love with your best friend? …Yeah, me neither. Rescued from the depths of an existential crisis by a butt joke, Violet falls in love with her best friend June. Violet tries to confess, but it’s never the right time: June’s boyfriend is there, June stands her up, Violet’s away for a month animating bug fights—but her feelings keep coming back. And…
