An animation that seeks to deduce how lesbians and gay men can exist in harmony on the dance floor.
Filter Films
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Part science movie, part storybook, “Bug Girl” is an ecological fable. While searching for her lost cat, a young girl accidentally swallows a bee. Macrocosmic and microcosmic worlds collide and the young girl enters the biotech garden. Here, innocence is lost and her journey transforms into a visual tumble through nature, biology and consciousness. “Bug Girl” is primarily intended to be an installation piece shown in a gallery context. However, it can also be screened as a single-channel work. For the installation, the image is projected onto a circular screen with surround sound. Contact the CFMDC for fees and technical details.
Bug Girl
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“Triage” is a unique dual-projection collaboration by Michael Snow and Carl Brown. Each of the artists worked to a specific duration, but were otherwise unaware of any details about the other’s film. So, an experimental film in the true sense of the word! With a sound composition by John Kamevaar.
Triage
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“I Don’t Exist” succintly shows one girl’s feelings of isolation, invisibility and anger on the streets of Hackney. Excellent camerawork makes this piece a small gem.
I Don’t Exist
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Set in an imaginary nameless space that closely resembles the Caribbean, “Child-Play” is an allegorical Dream Tale paralleling the “innocence” of childhood and the elder phases of existence. Ateesha Mansara, a woman in her late sixties, has lived a life colonized by her own fears about the threat of usurpation of her identity by the Dutchman Spirit of a child molester, whom she had previously met when she was a girl of ten. The spirit of Georgie De Root revisits Ateesha fifty years later in a final attempt to lay “claim” to her soul. Or does he? Available on DVD on the compilation “Artist Spotlight Series: Michelle Mohabeer.”
Child-Play
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In this powerful short, two men transcend time and space with just one click. Soon after Jake and Jonnie make contact in a virtual chat room, Jake finds Jonnie along the East River. Their sincere romance unfolds in the streets, coffee shops and bars of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is only after they wake up the next morning that they feel compelled to reveal their secret identities, and are forced to confront the nature of their “true” selves.
Click
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An attempt at creating a perfect world which contains many Keith Coles.
Keith Cole is the New Lisa Lisa
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Norman is a character who is lost in an ambiguous dreamlike nowhere space where he obsessively turns, climbs and twists. The gritty, hand-processed aesthetic reflects Normans’ intense psychological state. The film is divided into three short sections: Turn, Climb and Norman.
Norman: Turn, Climb, Norman
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“My Powder Blue World” explores the memory of a man who recalls his childhood fantasy of attending school dressed like a girl. His story is a whimsical challenge to the institutions that try to regulate and suppress the expression of gender and self. Written and performed by David Bateman.
My Powder Blue World
