Sad Girl Cinema is an ongoing documentary film project exploring mental health narratives in screen culture created by queer writers Claire Biddles and Bethany Rose Lamont and designed by Maggie Webster. Sorted into three themes: therapy, the mental health ward, and tortured geniuses and tragic muses, SGC navigates a whole bunch of pop cultural clichés […]
Fred Barney Taylor's documentary offers a portrait of Samuel R. Delany, black gay man, radical, and revered author of science fiction novels. Delany is also a well-regarded literary critic and academic with a candid and iconoclastic approach. He recounts his Harlem childhood, experiences with psychotherapy, and promiscuous adventures in the infamous Everard Baths and other […]
Proudly presenting dykes defying society, each other, themselves, and the demands and expectations of both hetero and queer culture. A feisty granny drags her granddaughter out of the closet, 3 Butch/Femme and Stud/Fem lesbian couples from working-class backgrounds share fragments from their lives, a 17-year-old from a West Bank settlement goes to a gay club […]
M4M showcases queer sex on camera with a variety of vivid, lurid, and fluid short films and clips. Presenting scenes from prominent gay porn company productions including Falcon Studios’ pioneering 1983 film, Spokes, and the infamous Devil's Dick scene from Treasure Island Media's 2006 Breeding Season. Also featuring a selection of works by Zachary Hutchinson, […]
Described by director Gregg Araki as "A Beverly Hills 90210 episode on acid,” Nowhere follows 18-year-old Dark Smith through a day in the teenager’s life in LA. Dark fails to get the emotional support he craves from girlfriend Mel, who is also involved with a girl named Lucifer, while Dark moons over hunky Montgomery. A […]
“We felt like every day was wonderful and anything could happen.” Rich and distinguished stories unfold among the lives of long-term survivors who have learned how to celebrate, heal, love, and thrive after the devastation of the early AIDS crisis. In this cathartic and intimate documentary, eight men look back on their experiences and then […]
On her way to the store with a group of friends, trans woman Chrishaun Reed “CeCe” McDonald was brutally attacked and in defending her life, a man was killed. After a coercive interrogation, CeCe was incarcerated in a men’s prison in Minnesota. An international campaign to free CeCe garnered significant support from media and activists, […]
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Sheila McLaughlin's solo directorial debut follows professional social advocate Agatha (Sheila Dabney) and her partner, mercurial indie filmmaker Jo (Lois Weaver). Taking care of Jo's flat whilst she’s away, Agatha discovers Jo's diary, which catalogues her past sexual experiences with men. As Jo repeatedly leaves to work on production […]
Presenting a selection of the compelling array of queer filmmaking happening in Scotland. A gay man drags his friend into lying to his mother with hilarious results, a Polish woman gives insights into why she chose to leave her country to move to Edinburgh, a mother-daughter relationship in the year 2020 proves surprising, and a […]
Bruce LaBruce's Hustler White features the legendary Canadian filmmaker himself as lovelorn academic Jürgen Anger, whose quest to document the LA hustling scene leads him into an increasingly tangled relationship with the reckless Monti Ward. A satirical black comedy riffing on Sunset Boulevard amongst other Hollywood classics, this early work from LaBruce also stars queer […]
