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An intimate and innovative film about English-born, often California-based artist David Hockney and his work, honoring its subject through creative risk-taking. Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid featuring Hockney, a wary participant, as well as his circle of friends, capturing the agonized end of the lingering affair between Hockney and his muse, an American named Peter Schlesinger.
A collaborative effort between some of queer cinema’s juggernauts — including future Oscar winner Rob Epstein, Frances Reid, Greta Schiller, Lucy Winer, Jan Oxenberg, and Barbara Hammer — captures the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979, largely unseen until its restoration last year.
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."
Because of the love he feels for a boy (Johan), a young director decides to make him play in a movie. But Johan is in Jail before the shooting. Through other persons the author searches the absent one. He recalls the movie he had to make with Johan; that drives him in homosexual groups, Johan’s friends, enemies, replacements.
Underground San Francisco filmmaker Curt McDowell offers a cinematic account of his “adventures with straight boys and the hospitality he extends to them.”
As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited. Experiencing her first love, lonely Manuela also discovers the complexities that come with an illicit romance.
Two men meet in Milan for 48 hours. They met for the first time, elsewhere. The voice-over speaks of this first weekend and the images are those of the second. The film brings them together and goes beyond them to evoke a city and a passion.
Animation of photos and paper cut outs from a hike at Machu Pichu in Peru.
On December 2, 1966, director Shirley Clarke and a miniscule film crew gathered in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea. Bestowed for twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday, Clarke confronted the iconic performer about his good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, on-and-off houseboy and aspiring cabaret performer.
Often called “the pioneer of lesbian gaze,” iconic San Francisco photographer Honey Lee Cottrell was a student at San Francisco State University when she made this lustful, elliptical exploration of female fantasy and self-love.
Directed by George Sluizer, Twice a Woman is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Harry Mulisch. It tells the story of a strained lesbian affair in Amsterdam. The international cast of stars includes Bergman regular Bibi Andersson and gay icon Anthony Perkins.
A modern gay classic, We Were One Man takes place in France in 1943 and is the story of Guy, a French farmer about to be married, and Rolf, a German soldier. One day Guy finds a wounded Rolf, takes him home, nurses him to health, and tries to prevent his return to the army.
Saccharine Dutch housewife Eva (Monique van de Ven) is one encounter at the lesbian commune away from leaving her comfortable life, husband, and children. Eva’s husband champions her newfound preferences as “in fashion” until he catches her under the covers with liberated troubadour Lilian (Maria Schneider).