I am working on the full version since this was originally made for an assignment. Looking back, I'm a little embarrassed, but this is essentially my first "narrative" project of many to soon come, haha. I will always hold this corny little thing near to my heart, and I hope you enjoy it! Stay tuned for the full version, and maybe you can see how much I've improved.
The Lesbian Almanac is a Situationist calendar of dyke objects. This video features 12 paintings from the dyke community, examples of word play and literal interpretation through political claims and personal visions that become a lesbian collective unconscious.
I manipulate my past. I analyze my present. I prepare myself for my future. I have long followed these steps in my art. I naively tought I would understand everything. Miraculously. I thought that after a few videos, all would be clear. Crystal clear. Clear like fresh water. I realized that I was wasting my time. I have to abdicate. And move on.
A silent, repressed mechanic considers change after an encounter with a handsome stranger.
Andrew and Trevor are a happy gay couple, until Andrew's secret girlfriend - who also happens to be Trevor's best friend - shows up, and Andrew is forced to come to terms with his sexual identity.
After long online conversations, Anna and Lina meet live for the first time. Between tactile explorations and a game of looks, the two young women discover one another.
This is a very personal and touching story of transgender man Sebastian Kurgunayev from Azerbaijan who doesn't want to live in the closet anymore, and takes very serious step forward becoming a transgender activist and blogger.
In Pain’s An Illusion, the second offering of Gallant’s Chosen series, Jodie Foster delivers a scathing monologue from her 1980 film, Foxes.
It’s difficult making the transition from being single to starting a relationship. So how should we cope? Echo Each Other abandons spoken dialogue, instead using sign and body language to silently communicate with the audience.
Profiles of a number of gay expatriates living in the USA because of their sexuality and what they enjoy and miss now that they are living in the States.
“Hunch（確信 Kaku-Shin)” is a bittersweet growing-up story of a gay student who has a crush on his classmate. This is also a story of the unrequited love that every LGBT teens would experience. It released in 2016, and became popular among LGBT teens through social media.
Kausar, a middle aged trans-woman, receives a call to donate blood to a critically ill boy with the same rare blood group as hers. She rushes through the busy city of Lahore to reach the hospital on time, only to find out that her blood is not welcome, even if it costs the boy his life.
This short film explores human connection and emotions through movement and spoken words.
A documentary essay on coming of age and the power of the unconscious. In the same vein as Sweatlodge Song, this is a message of courage and hope.
Luis is a drag actor with the stage name "Dulce Polly" with great contrasts between the comical and overwhelming of his artistic character and the person outside the performance and in his privacy. He in turn is an English teacher and works in a high school in a deprived area of Montevideo. As an artist Luis wants more, he has the need and he will try to fulfill some dreams such as acting in the city of Buenos Aires. Outside of acting, he needs to feel more secure, as well as to find a partner who will fill him in his life to stop feeling loneliness and anguish.
A man is waiting for the end of the world.
Oscillating between reality and mise-en-scène, documentary and fiction, Eric & Me explores the interrogations of a young married gay man about paternity and, by extension, on what the concept of family really means.
Inner Cabin is a short experimental documentary about a homosexual man that seems to be unable to love. Or rather that hides in his thoughts as to not have to face love. It's as if sometimes he flees into a closet in his mind, even if he's been out of the closet for a decade.
Without hesitation, Cynthia Estimable, a student of 17, immersed in an intimate relationship with her best friend. When Cynthia faces the hostility of her family, the young woman discovers that her main ally lives within her like blood lives in the veins, unconditionally and independently of human beliefs.