Andy is a portrait of Reinke’s upstairs neighbour, Andy, which combines elements of amateur pornography with documentary portraiture/profile. The images are of Andy masturbating in his apartment, while in voice-over he describes in detail his decorating choices and rationale.

A middle-aged museum guard locks eyes with a sexy young visitor, igniting a series of fantastical tableaux that wittily riff on race, sexual power dynamics, art history, gold lamé briefs, and Tom of Finland.

One of cinema’s great experiments, this first installment of the Orphic Trilogy stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet’s obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death.

A beautifully ambiguous study of the nude in light and movement, this short silent film focuses on the dimly lit bodies of two women shot from Child’s distinctly non-male perspective.

Transsexual, butch, lesbian, fag, hermaphrodite, woman, man, he, she, it: Labels and pronouns slide, collide, and become useless in this chilling account of the triple-murder of gender­ ambiguous young Nebraskan Brandon Teena and two acquaintances. Filmmakers Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir admirably...

From Fireworks, which Kenneth Anger described as "all the explosive pyrotechnics of a dream" to Easy Garden, Anie Stanley's lyrical silent montage of carnivals and girls, this program traces five decades of experimental depictions of sexuality.

Mixing stop-motion animation with live action, Dirty Baby Does Fire Island tells the story of a naive baby doll named Dirty Baby who washes onto the shores of the Fire Island Pines. Dirty Baby experiences the decadent lifestyles of the community's inhabitants, learning all about sex, drugs and working out.

A dance film that depicts Black lesbian desire, featuring contemporary dancers Matima Hadi and Debra Floyd as well as original music by multi-instrumentalist Vicki Randle.

The first lesbian lovemaking film made by a lesbian, Dyketactics reveals Hammer’s aesthetic connecting sight and touch. 110 images in 4 minutes make this sensate film a "lesbian commercial."

East Palace, West Palace is an unconventional yet touching love story, a sensual portrayal of one man's struggle with himself, and a disturbing indictment of the state-sanctioned oppression of homosexuals in China.

An inquiry into what is pornographic. This film features images form Jean Genet's masterpiece, Un chant d'amour, along with images from gay male sex films in order to question what is "pornographic."

Flashback: Sandusky, Ohio, 1984, a kinder, gentler middle America. What better setting for director David Moreton's charming and poignant coming out piece, Edge of Seventeen?

A landmark of both experimental and queer filmmaking, Kenneth Anger’s film is a bizarre, disturbing dreamscape of violation, rape, and homoerotic sadomasochism.

Filmmaker Catherine Gund’s intimate portrait of performance artist Ron Athey charts his early career from redefining “go-go dancing” at the legendary Club Fuck! in Los Angeles to an international tour featuring his first major ensemble pieces, Martyrs and Saints, Four Scenes in a Harsh Life, and Deliverance.

This 11 minute homage to the male member shows its subject in the various stages of erection. The voice-over poem by James Broughton includes the line "This is the secret that will not stay hidden."

A young female intern (Radha Mitchell) at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer (Ally Sheedy) slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.

The short classical film of Chantal Akerman, describes two girls in Brussels who run away from home. They chain smoke and obsessively repeat the words: “I’m hungry, I’m cold”. What does fate have in store for two young penniless women in the big city?

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow — whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick.

Lot in Sodom is a sensual depiction of the Sodom and Gomorrah story filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies, delirious bacchanals devoted to physical pleasure, and a searing, cataclysmic finale depicting the fall of a city devoted to sins of the flesh.

One of the most influential avant garde films of all time, Alexander Hammid and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon stars Deren as a woman inside of a labyrinthine nightmare, inhabited by her double as well as a mysterious cloaked figure with the face of a mirror.

A luminous erotic portrait of a young neighbourhood hustler, that successfully blends elements from both the poetic and diary modes, and in the process creating one of the few truly erotic works in cinema.

Planting Seeds highlights three seminal films from the avant-garde tradition which have directly influenced generations of queer film­ makers. Though made under very different circumstances, these films show an uncanny relationship to each other on a formal level.

Glossy magazines, porn stars, washboard stomachs and street hustlers: Hollywood faith­ fully provides the public with a seemingly inexhaustible flood of male erotica. _Sex/Life in L.A. _brings together nine young men who earn their livings with their bodies.

Ulrike Ottinger's Ticket of No Return (Bildnis einer Trinkerin - Aller jamais retour) explores the complex social and psychological construction of female identity. A woman, dressed to the hilt in haute couture clothing, embarks on a drunken sightseeing tour of Berlin.