Queer Cinema(s)

  • Kris Niklison – Vergel (2017)

    2011-2020ArgentinaDramaKris NiklisonQueer Cinema(s)

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    An unashamedly erotic look at female queer sexuality viewed through the prism of emotional trauma, Vergel is guaranteed to stir. A sudden mourning brings a woman to the edge of madness. Funeral procedures, heat and a neighbor that comes to water the plants, come together in an emotional journey where it is impossible to distinguish the real from the unreal.Read More »

  • Curtis Harrington – Fragment of Seeking (1946)

    1941-1950Curtis HarringtonExperimentalQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmUSA

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    Harrington plays a young man desperately seeking out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the surreal explorations of his own sexuality. Made a year before Kenneth Anger’s Fireworks, the films contain some similarities in their treatment of homoerotic themes, though Fragment is more restrained and subtle.Read More »

  • Kenneth Anger – Puce Moment (1949)

    1941-1950ArthouseKenneth AngerQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmUSA

    A soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920’s style flapper gowns, holding them one at a time, shaking them as if they are dancing. She picks one – in puce. She puts it on, delighted, adds perfume, languishes on a chaise for a few minutes, then goes for her walk. It all has a 20’s feel.

    Puce Moment was to be called Puce Women, but only this 6 minute fragment was finished. Situated in the 1920’s, it depicts a lady, Yvonne Marquis, selecting a dress to go out with her dogs. Puce is a colour, a hue of violet, popular in those times.Read More »

  • Jack Deveau – Drive (1974)

    1971-1980EroticaJack DeveauQueer Cinema(s)USA

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    Synopsis: The title refers both to the male sexual drive and to the fact that the hero of the movie is always tooling around Manhattan in a Lamborghini; and a villainess drag queen who tries to rid men of their sex drives! Sounds amazing, with a screenplay by Christopher Rage (who also, in drag, plays the villainess Arachne) with over 50 people in the cast – Read More »

  • Tim Kincaid – El Paso Wrecking Corp. (1978)

    1971-1980CultEroticaQueer Cinema(s)Tim KincaidUSA

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    The second in director Gage’s masterful “working men” trilogy still stands to this day as one terrific gay porn. Think of this one as the Empire Strikes Back of gay porn. This classic is the second part of Gage’s legendary trilogy (Part 1 is Kansas City Trucking Co. and Part 3 is L.A. Tool & Die) and an essential addition to any gay porn aficionado’s library. The glory hole scene is a textbook classic example of deeply slobber-filled oral and facial cumshots galore. Again, some footage from it’s initial release is missing, as the trilogy passed through many hands over the years. It makes you want to reach out and smack someone – namely studio chiefs. Still, it’s a must-see and a must-own. May the heavy-duty tissues be with you.Read More »

  • Leilah Weinraub – Shakedown (2018)

    2011-2020DocumentaryLeilah WeinraubQueer Cinema(s)USA

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    SHAKEDOWN chronicles explicit performances in an underground lesbian club in Los Angeles. The story functions as a legend where money is both myth and material. Cumulatively, questions arise about how to diagram the before and after of a utopic moment. Directed by Leilah Weinraub.Read More »

  • Mohamed Camara – Dakan (1997)

    1991-2000DramaGuineaMohamed CamaraQueer Cinema(s)Romance

    Over turning given assumptions about gay identity with it’s 1st world connotations as well as our less informed view of the sub-Saharan African context, this gentle, humble film depicts the less often if ever portrayed life of gay love in rural Africa.

    This film’s relevance & point of interest is that it remains perhaps the only example of it’s kind to provide images which counteract notions of homophobia & the non existence of homosexuality in the realm of ‘blackness’, ‘Africa’ and the developing world & provides an accessible & familiar story of the dilemmas of love specifically within all three contexts usually understood to exclude gay representation.Read More »

  • Vic Morrow – Deathwatch (1966)

    1961-1970CultDramaQueer Cinema(s)USAVic Morrow

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    Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.

    Leonard Nimoy (Jules LeFranc), Michael Forest (Greeneyes), Paul Mazursky (Maurice), Robert Ellenstein (Guard), Gavin MacLeod (Emil)

    Sharing a dank cell in a French prison are Jules LeFranc, a social outcast serving time for a minor theft, and Greeneyes, a convicted murderer awaiting the guillotine. Embarrassed by the pettiness of his offense against a society he detests, Jules openly worships the infamous Greeneyes and longs to be his friend. Read More »

  • Urban Gad – Zapatas Bande AKA Zapata’s Gang (1914)

    1911-1920GermanyQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmUrban Gad

    Storyline
    Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice.Read More »

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