All Films

A compelling portrait of parents coming to terms with their children’s sexual orientation. The parents and children director Vickie Seitchik interviews each come from different social and ethnic backgrounds. Some accepted their children’s orientation easily; others had grief to compound their ordeal from the start. Seitchik skillfully interweaves different interviews to bring out particular personalities while highlighting common traits they all share: the shame, anger, hurt and sense of loss, but also and especially the relief, joy and energy coming out can bring.

In the years before 1995, young artists who pursued free creativity came from all over the country to Yuanmingyuan, in the western suburbs of Beijing. These people settled in the rental houses of the village farmers, and then ambitiously bought paint-stretched canvases to explore and create art. The biggest difficulty they face is to make up for the monthly rent to be paid to the landlord. Selling paintings is not their only means of survival; they would also rely on other crafts to maintain their lives. Their works were very different; they have a spirit of rebellion, and they do not conform to traditional aesthetics. This is what caused Sate officials to intervene. (Shot May–December 1995.)

"A world of pain and sorrow even while the cherry trees are in bloom." Haïku d'Issa (18th century).

Playful course on a goose-body game.

"Guitar Grind" opens abruptly with an overhead shot of Parrino, clad in sunglasses and a T-shirt, as he begins sliding his bass guitar—positioned facedown like a violin bow—against a guitar resting atop its case, causing a somewhat unholy racket. Occasionally reaching up to tweak the amplifier or manipulate the guitar pedal to produce screeching and howling feedback, Parrino uses the instruments unconventionally so that together they project a discordant noise. The artist masterfully draws the listener in to hear repetitions, subtle variations, and musical gestures in the unusual sonic palette. Shot by a lone cameraperson, the visuals of Parrino's performance become increasingly abstract as the music develops into a more familiar and alluring language.

"The experimental 16mm film which I created in 1995 at SIU-C [...] the film is repeatedly constructed [in] b/w film".

"Drag-Attack" is an utterly fantastical film composition from the true life of two created characters, the drag queen Chantal St. Germain (Ken Krüger) and Dame Galaxis (Mario Soldo), as they journey around the world.

Join us as we meet the many cowboys and cowgirls in the Texas Gay Rodeo Association, where plenty of cattle roping, wild horse riding, and drag queen steer wrestling takes place!

A portrait of an ex-coalminer turned inventor of the horse jaquzzi and Morrissey fanatic.

A young man in the Alps is confronted with his culture's fears of nature, wolves, sexuality and wildness. Based on the short story Peter and the Wolf by Angela Carter.

Sweep is a road movie to memory, a realization of the need to review footsteps and past events which build myths. The camera gazes at the spaces in-between image and text, photography and memory, body and place. The surface texture of the film, like the land north of Lake Superior, is overdetermined by the discourse of territorialism, the cultural divisions of space and place framed and divided amid the ruins of history. An irritating buzz overlays parts of the soundtrack, signifying the hydro-electric development that has irreparably disrupted life in the north, while at the same time extending a modicum of material benefits. The filmmakers understand themselves as embodying this southern technocracy, and choose to turn the camera onto their own presence and progress of looking. Here, they work against the tendency, present since the days of Flaherty and in his more recent imitators, to objectify Aboriginal peoples within an unnameable (and thus exploitable) landscape.

A 1995 film co-directed by Kang Jianning and Gao Guodong that, most likely, grew out of their earlier film Sand and Sea, and saw at least Kang returning to the family in the desert that he interviewed for that film. Not to be confused with another film of this same title by Kang, from 2003, which includes more up-to-date footage, was itself edited down for broadcast on Chinese TV as part of the 'The Weight of Time' series, and does not include any contributions from Gao Guodong.

"Cuando cae el sol" is a live vhs edited by the Frost Bite label, with images from the show that Fun People gave on September 23, 1995 at the Arlequines theater in Buenos Aires. Video clips are also included at the end of the tape.

What kind of symbolism is encoded in modern sculpture and dance? When Lois Carmen Denominator asks this question, only the camera operator has the guts to stick around and find out the answer.

Leikr – Journey Towards Light is an old Norse word meaning game fight or exercise. An exciting meeting after a journey in an animated and evolving Nordic landscape. Original music by Bendik Hofseth, saxophone player and composer. A diverse artist who has written music for ballet, movies and theatre.

Caroline does not remember living in a time of peace; she has been a young child when the "troubles" in Belfast started. During the 25 years during which the war lasted, she got married and raised three children; and only a few weeks before the ceasefire started she was killed. Since the ceasefire, the situation in Northern Ireland has not changed much: the fear to talk is as big as ever before.

Shizuka recorded live at Manda-la2, Tokyo on November 8, 1993, and at Studio AMS on August 12, 1994.

Dog Eat Dog: Live at Dynamo Open Air in 1995.

The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as incest is prohibited, like elsewhere, their sexual life mainly takes the form of nocturnal visits of men to women.

A short film from the 18th Pia Film Festival.

In Culture Wars the civil war for cultural values being fought by right-wing conservatives and gay activists is chillingly depicted: after activists convince authorities to acknowledge the 1990 murder of Julio Rivera in Queens as a hate crime, the murderers are convicted;Jesse Helms uses the public television broadcast of Marlon Rigg’s Tongues Untied to attack the National Endowment for the Arts; and local activists successfully campaign against Oregon’s Religious-Right-sponsored Ballot Measure 9, the first of many initiatives nationwide seeking to curtail civil rights.

Short film by Ono Kouta

One day, a young man finds a dead man in an underpass, but the corpse disappears, leaving behind a Bible. Using only the remaining Bible as a clue, the young man embarks on a journey to find the identity of the disappeared man.

A woman tries to get her novel published without selling out to the man!