“I’m Just Anneke” is a portrait of a 12-year-old girl who loves ice hockey and has a loving, close-knit family. Anneke is also a hardcore tomboy and everybody she meets assumes she’s a boy. The onset of puberty has created an identity crisis for Anneke. Does she want to be a boy or a girl when she grows up, or something in between? To give her more time to make a decision, her doctor has put her on Lupron, a hormone blocker that temporarily freezes her body in a pre-pubescent state. Despite rejection by her friends and struggles with suicidal depression, Anneke is determined to be true to herself and maintain a gender fluid identity that matches what she feels on the inside. “Anneke” takes us into the heart of a new generation of children who are intuitively questioning the binary gender paradigm. Winner of the Audience Award, Outfest Film Festival (2010) Winner of the Change Maker Award, Media That Matters Film Festival (2010) Official Selection: Silver Docs Film Festival (2010) & Tokyo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (2010)
Filter Films
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This video was taken using a small digital still camera on multiple bus trips between New York City and Upstate NY. The bus’ many large windows afforded dramatic reflections to this perched passenger, feeling as if floating through the landscape. Lulled by the noises of the tires on the road, the incessant tremors, muffled conversations and trying to keep digital camera steady while being thrown from side-to-side, visual wedges kept uncannily intersecting and gesturing.
Travelogue
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Shot on one reel of Super 8mm and edited in camera, “Les Nanas” is a visual interpretation of a piece of music by avant-garde musicians, the Artie Smudges Trio, which follows a day in the lives of three doll-like women.
Les Nanas
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Raised by her two moms, Hanna has always known that there are all types of families. But she’s never really thought about the logistics of it all until her friend Marco explains the process of creating chicks from eggs. Soon after, an educational trip through cyberspace has Hanna asking, “Who’s MY rooster?” “Hens and Chicks” is a short independent film that explores the meaning of family and the finding of self. Sweet and funny, this coming-of-age story plays with the universal questions we ask ourselves as parents, children, and human beings.
Hens and Chicks
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“Doubt” combines a large range of formal techniques, from collage animation to trance psychodrama to structuralism to diary film to found film in some very humorous ways. Under it all, the film tells the vague story of a man’s search for happiness within a chaotic world which seems bent on restricting all joy.
Doubt
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Tim and Julian are deeply in love, but they can’t find happiness between the sheets. When you can’t sexually satisfy the person you love, do you call it quits…? Nomination: Iris Prize, UK Official Selections: Hamburg International Queer Film Festival (Germany), Mix Brasil Festival (Brazil), Frameline San Francisco (USA), Verzaubert Festival (Germany), Festival de la Luna Valencia (Spain), GLBT La Paz Film Festival (Bolivia).
Torten im Sand (Cakes and Sand)
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Two young lovers, live in a tiny apartment, struggling everyday to find reasons to stay together. As they are incapable of living apart, they choose to live silently.
Cavalos Selvagens (Wild Horses)
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“Tobacco Shed” is a record of the facades of a large agricultural building, housing tobacco-curing ovens. The near-uniform framing, and the relationship of the shots to each other, is determined by the regular forms of the building, and by the intention that the film be a complete record of the building’s outer surfaces. The sound is a single continuous recording made inside the shed from a fixed position. Thus a contrasting relationship between outside and inside is established through a corresponding relationship between image and sound, in such a way that the intrinsic contrast between these two modalities is emphasised. The film was shot in Spedalicchio, a small hamlet in rural northwest Umbria, central Italy. In 2012 the subsidies given to tobacco producers in the European Union (293 million Euros in 2008) will end, and buildings like this will either be converted to other uses or fall into disrepair, as farmers move into alternative crop production.
Tobacco Shed
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A seemingly normal subway ride across Manhattan transforms into a comic anthropological study of the local and exotic species of New York City’s gay “wildlife.” On this romp through the underground, filmed in mock National Geographic style, viewers will get to know such fabulous species as the Tiny Exotic, the Chelsea Thoroughbred, and the Upper Westsidus Reform Judaicus, among many others. A witty observation of the fascinating and diverse breeds that co-exist within one great city, “Domestic Shorthair Underground” brings a new definition to ‘underground’ guerrilla filmmaking.
Domestic Shorthair Underground
