All Films

The Gaze of the Stars

1997 • 26 min

Julia is apparently a woman of exceptional beauty, but is married to a wildly abusive man called Saide. Betihno, a young boy living with his tarvern owner uncle, has never seen this Julia. Legend has it that she never leaves the house, as she is hideously swollen from daily beatings. No one would say why Saide is always beating her up. One day the little boy discovers that Julia was once the love of his uncle. One day Betihno is left to look after the shop while his uncle goes to watch a contortionist’s show, and comes face to face with Saide. In a few moments, the truth about Julia will come out.

Gladly Given

1997 • 10 min • United States of America

“Illuminated leaves from the sub rosa oeuvre of Jerome Hiler. Although the title is tinged with irony, this film is in fact a gift and a work of gifted seeing made perceptible. Fragile and challenging in its seeming simplicity, GLADLY GIVEN unfolds and bristles with the delicacy of a Japanese Floating World painting while being gravitationally drawn into the containments and accidents of the everyday.” –Mark McElhatten

Inflorescentia

1997 • 13 min

Attempting to fissure prevailing relations between spectator and screen, between sight and touch, desiring subject and object of desire, Inflorescentia uses poetics, humor and erotics as means to voice "the body" and to take stock of cinema as one of the multiple transgressive sites for female pleasure. Its influences are productions by gay men, including Sergei Paradjanov, Derek Jarman and Jean Genet.

Deadly Bugs

1997 • 50 min

Go on an eerie nighttime search using black light to spot the amazing glow of the Bark Scorpion. Track the alarming spread of highly aggressive "Killer Bees" - responsible for over 2,000 fatal human attacks. Follow the short, deadly life cycle of the disease-spreading Mosquito, the tiny bloodsucker that has killed more people then both tigers and bears.

Manners, Who Needs Them?

1997 • 25 min

Table etiquette for kids.

Bisexual Wannabe

1997 • 3 min • Canada

A young lesbian, frustrated with a recent relationship, explores bisexuality and has an enlightening discovery.

Looking for Another Girl

1997 • 3 min • United States of America

Looking for Another Girl is a short music video about a girl who is, well, looking for another one. It's a tongue in cheek take on lesbian dating set to the tune of "New England" by Billy Bragg, with a few of the lyrics irrevocably changed!

Surfer Dick

1997 • 4 min • Canada

A dance video with drag queens, surfer music and Scrabble geeks. A parody of gender roles both queer and straight, in a fast paced multi layered mix.

Lisa Lisa

1997 • 10 min • United States of America

Have you ever dated a woman named Lisa? Is it possible that more lesbians are named Lisa than any other name? Find out what 22 women in Chicago had to say about it.

Belly, Femur. Femur, Belly

1997 • 7 min • United States of America

A chance meeting between the supercool, worldly wise Belly and the awkward, heart-broken Femur becomes an afternoon roam around the city. Their day culminates into what would seem to be a simple gesture to most but proves pivotal for these two.

Trappings of Transhood

1997 • 27 min • United States of America

The world and concerns of transsexuals -- their lives; relations between transgender persons and homosexuals; issues of cultural, ethnic, erotic, and gender identification; transitioning with and without hormones and surgery -- are communicated through interviews, video collage, and music.

Camp Lavender Hill

1997 • 28 min • United States of America

This thoughtful documentary profiles Camp Lavender Hill, the first summer camp for children of lesbian, gay and bisexual parents. As we get to know the children in the film, they share how they feel similar and different from children raised in more traditional families.

Butch Girls, Reservoir Dykes, and Faggot Whores

1997 • 23 min • United States of America

A joyride through San Francisco's butch scene takes gleeful aim at Quentin Tarantino's overblown hyper-masculine sensibilities.

Mother Marilyn

1997 • 9 min • Canada

This film is animated in the rough collage style that James MacSwain has made his own. Utilizing a series of vignettes, the film traces the story of the child born to Marilyn Monroe and President Kennedy. As the satire unfolds, the story becomes a metaphor for the collapse of the American Empire due to mysticism and drugs.

Dream of Hanif

1997 • 26 min • India

Like most other traditional art form scroll painting lost its ground to modern electronic media. For survival all the painters trying to mold them according to the market's demand. Only one man Dukhushyam Chitrakar is not ready to leave the age-old legacy.

Wait Until Death

1997 • 54 min

An investigative film on the mass death of tribal workers in a stone crushing factory.

Chow Down

1997 • 3 min • Canada

A chubby girl tries to find the perfect outfit for the big concert. Trouble is, nothing fits.

A Stranger in My Native Land

1997 • 33 min • India, United Kingdom

The poignant and personal account of Tenzing Sonam’s first-ever visit to his homeland, from the far reaches of Amdo Province, where Tibetans have lost their language, to Lhasa, the heart of the country.

The Elite

1997 • 52 min

Camera

1997 • 9 min • Austria

In the spring of 1997 I placed the camera in front of a mirror and filmed the camera and myself at the same time as manipulating the camera in ways not recommended in the instructions for use. When the film came back from being developed, I was forced to think "Whew". The camera looked much better that I did and I wanted to destroy the film immediately. Dietmar Brehm

Quạ và Công

1997 • 10 min • Vietnam

All the birds in the kingdom show off their most beautiful coat of feathers.

Ahoy the Movie

1997 • 2 min • United States of America

One night at a seedy dockside pub, a crusty old pirate tries to earn a free tankard of ale by telling a scary sea story to his mates, but he is thwarted by a young sailor who claims to have already heard every story. The youngster finally goes too far when he prevents the telling of an especially risque tale, and the other pirates take their revenge.

Gabola the Great

1997 • 2 min • United States of America

Gabola The Great is a not-very-good stage magician who struggles to entertain an unseen and unimpressed audience. First he produces an egg by sleight-of-hand, then a live bird from the crushed egg, but the bird flies off to a quick demise. The real disaster occurs when Gabola tries to pull a rabbit from his hat.

Playing Fields

1997 • 35 min

Highly acclaimed UK skateboarding documentary. Starring; Mark Channer, Ben Rodriguez, Alex Moul, Mat Fowler, Colin Kennedy, Danny Wainwright, Frank Stephens & more. Originally released on VHS in 1997. Digitally remastered and released on DVD in 2013.