All Films

Faceless

2012 • 13 min

The story of that faceless person who doesn't fit the stereotypical image in the gay community. From the perspective of a faceless man the film attempts to bring to the fore the problems of discrimination, segregation and white supremacy within the gay community in North America.

The First Date

2012 • 7 min

In this hilarious ode to ‘the first date’, two friends discuss the embarrassing events of the night before. But neither is aware of who could be listening in on their conversation

A Gift from My Father

2012 • 14 min

Robert is a gay Dominican and just got a visa for the US - He wants to be in New York if he can find the money he needs for the trip. Some time before his extremely homophobic father gave him a handgun to have him kill himself.

Ha(r)d to Say

2012 • 13 min

Two young men meet in NYC and hang out together. Meanwhile they don’t hide the envy for…hot dogs…ice cream…and each other. Then something happens…what is it exactly?

Memory of a Butterfly

2012 • 10 min

A love story between two young women set against the backdrop of Chinese Opera.

The Secret According to António Botto

2012 • 12 min • Portugal

Antonio Botto and Fernando Pessoa, two renowned Portuguese poets, exchanged fictitious love letters. Botto wrote under his own name, and Pessoa signed as 'Manuel de Andrade'. But as time passed, these letters gained a new level of importance in both poets' lives.

Shared Origins

2012 • 18 min

When two girls, born in Ethiopia and raised in North Carolina by lesbian parents, travel to their birth country for the first time, an unexpected relationship forms that will change their lives and connection to their heritage.

Slashed: Tales of Forbidden Lust

2012 • 19 min

A small-town Christian girl has taken the low road - she's moved to the city of San Francisco and become a slash fiction writer. Her characters are different than your usual Harry/Draco slash - they're real people from her life, who become unwillingly caught in her fantasies. Or rather, she becomes caught in theirs.

Sugar Cookie

2012 • 23 min

Infidelity is the tie that binds in this modern tale of love. Mae recognizes that her long-term partner, April has lost passion for her. So, Mae insidiously invites the irritating nymphet, Joon, to be their house-guest. As revenge? As a distraction? When April and Joon are left alone for an evening, April finds her annoyance with Joon transforms into a game-changing curiosity.

Summer of Lost Love

2012 • 20 min

Kris feels something is missing in his love life. After meeting a gay guy named Chester, who introduces him to Julia (his soon to be new girlfriend). Kris starts to feel different around Chester when Julia leaves for her internship. Kris and Chester start to spend more time together and start up a relationship. When caught in the act by Julia, Kris is now faced with a choice of man or woman.

Un Chant d'Amour (Nouveau)

2012 • 5 min

A homage to Jean Genet's film Un chant d'amour (1950), two prisoners longing for human contact and affection, a transcendent friendship in a simple act of sharing a cigarette in this short film by Sam Scott Schiavo.

Black Stone Cherry: Rocklahoma Festival 2012

2012 • 31 min • United States of America

Black Stone Cherry at Pryor Festival Grounds, Pryor, OK, USA.

Loving Large

2012 • 58 min • United States of America

From plus-size fashion shows and beauty pageants to people who think big is beautiful, a counter-cultural movement is in full swing against the pop culture mandate that thin is in.

Meltdown

2012 • 11 min • Canada

Waiting to die and waiting to live is the same thing to him that chants: "Let me not be mad... let me not be MAD... LET ME NOT BE MAD!"

Sugar

2012 • 19 min

A true story about a child who had diabetes but the father ignored his son's illness and neglected him ignorantly.

Waiting Room

2012 • 9 min

The pulsating rhythms of fluorescent lighting not quite in synch with those of the video image, create a singular array of drifting yellows. Camera handler and son waiting for a pediatric doctor's appointment, while playful taunts mingle with the curious decor, the focused patients, slow blurs and daily life unfurl. Chance encounters, accidental time, in spite of everything, small miracles of cinema and being.

Invasive Species

2012 • 12 min

Documents a peculiar request by phone, set against a beautiful day at Green-Wood Cemetery. The exchange explores multiple tangents, from parakeets to numerology, while the onscreen events turn bizarrely synchronous.

El niño y el Basilisco

2012 • 21 min

Manila, 1945: a boy looks at the sea from the boardwalk, turning his back on a destroyed city. From a photograph of his childhood, Luis Eduardo Aute glances back to discover what remains in him of those eyes of a child with which he looked at the sea. With the battle of Manila as the setting, a bloody contest that claimed the lives of more than a hundred thousand people, the author remembers the boy who was and how, from that tragic experience, the figure of the basilisk began to stalk him, a being mythological in the form of a winged serpent capable of killing with its eyes, representing the adult world, degradation and death.

Hija de Puta

2012 • 13 min

The short film immerses us in a day of Andrea, a little girl, whose mother is a prostitute. Immersed in a housewife routine, taking care of her little brother while his mother goes to work; That night, Andrea receives a visit from an unknown and strange man who comes with all the conviction of a toad turned into a prince to change his life.

Process of Elimination

2012 • 3 min

A rite of passage, an emptying out of things, and a process of emotional alchemy.

A Woman Scorn'd

2012 • 19 min

New Mexico: Before the Manhattan Project and food-chains. When the Old West that we know from myth and fact still lived large, and infamous characters found themselves at the mercy of each others temperament and bullets. It was time most commonly associated with masculinity. However, in A Woman Scorn'd we find ourselves amongst the outlaws with a strong female protagonist named Emil. In this feminist/queer western we follow Emil through her betrayal at the hands of her own gang, left with more wounds than physical, she finds herself in the company of a young runaway named Henry. With a dark past of his own, the two set off in search of in search of recovery, and revenge against the infamous Saul Chahill.

Cutaways

2012 • 3 min • United States of America

At the close of the taping of a video interview for Prime Time Russia in Moscow, Simon was asked to sit in silence and stare at the newscasters for several minutes so that the producers could gather additional footage for the editing process. Cutaways (2012) presents this footage as an autonomous work.

Demonstration

2012 • 3 min

It may be that exhibitionistic displays of emotion are purely for the benefit of the demonstrator, in an act of self-indulgent catharsis, but that doesn’t mean they can’t communicate some of that weird emotion to an unrelated party. (Mark Toscano)

A Glaring Night

2012 • 28 min

A Glaring Night A drunk passenger leads a taxi driver on a wild trip in this story.