When you spend your entire life next to someone, all the time in the world isn’t enough to say goodbye.
Filter Films
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Bobby, a Korean-American teenage outcast, is working at his parents’ dry cleaners on prom weekend. When the prom queen and her boyfriend stop by with their dress and tuxedo, Bobby creates his own night to remember. Jury Award for Best Short Film (tie), Philadelphia QFest 2011. Awarded “Best of Fest” at Palm Springs International Short Fest, Telluride, Aspen ShortsFest, Seattle, Rhode Island, Los Angeles Film Festival and nominated for the Iris Prize (UK Film Council).
Queen, The
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A short drama about African-American composer Billy Strayhorn and the personal and professional consequences of his decision to live as an openly gay man within the homophobic jazz milieu of the 1940s. Filmed on location in Amsterdam. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival (2010), Outfest (2010).
Billy and Aaron
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A queer doppelganger couple fights the age-old battle between poly-amorous adventure and hetero-normative monogamy. Winner of the Best Low Budget Film Award, Sicilia Queer Film Festival (Italy, 2011)
TWO BEDS
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Abstract Random’s response to the G20, Toronto, featuring Ayo Leilani! “All who were affected by the terror of the G20, and all who continue to live life in hardship throughout the world, NEVER GIVE UP! May we continue to spread the truth and awaken minds through love.” – AR Abstract Random is a live-experimental-electro-dub-hop-bring back cool feminist-political group, based out of Toronto, Canada. AR is usually found in bright face paint and under video projections. AR is also available for live performance bookings with visual accompaniment.
ABSTRACT RANDOM “NEW WORLD ORDER” feat. AYO LEILANI!
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Messy lives. Messy relationship. Messy sock drawers. This short and sweet animation will show you how to tidy it all up in less than one minute.
Don’t Bug Me
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“Without girls there’d be no world!” “COWBOY” is about gender bending, questioning authority, and challenging the norm. The film is an Abstract Random Production featuring the amazing and beautiful, Ill Nana DiverseCity Dance Company. Abstract Random is a live-experimental-electro-dub-hop-bring back cool feminist-political group, based out of Toronto, Canada. Abstract Random is also available for live performance bookings with visual accompaniment.
ABSTRACT RANDOM “COWBOY” feat. ILL NANA DiverseCity Dance Company
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Lloyd and Jackie are best friends, but everyone wonders why they never married each other. Both are semi-retired high school teachers who live in rural Tennessee. Over the last three decades, they have traveled together to 117 countries. Lloyd obsessively collects souvenirs from his travels and objects he finds at rummage sales. “First and Loveliss” choreographs a series of glimpses into Lloyd and Jackie’s lives as they navigate their unusual relationships with each other, their sexuality and the material world–and as they confront their ailing parents’ and their own mortality. Winner of the Outfest 2009 Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Short Film
First and Loveliss
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Incorporating meditations on male sexuality and personal exchanges, “Goodbye” travels through physical memory to reveal the marrow that grows beneath. Placed in a surreal yet pastoral surrounding, “Goodbye” is a letter explored through the journey of agarwood, or jin-koh, a rare oil created by a genus of tree infected with a fungal spore. The piece examines how an intangible object can impress greatly on personal history by relating perfume to memory. Experimenting with the abilities of the Bolex H16 and sound print film stock, this 16mm film was shot and hand-processed at Phil Hoffman’s Independent Imaging Retreat.
Goodbye
