: A call and response with Warhol's 1964 "Blow Job"

Bolex Study #1

A girl gang terrorizes and titillates girls with long hair.


Written, directed, edited and produced by Myra Paci


Cast: Cassis Henry, Katrin Hilbe, Myra Paci, Jennifer Payson, Amy Russell, Spencer Snygg

Butch Patrol

Dr. XYZ is an exercise in queering the healthcare information film (shot on 16mm) exploring the critical state of trans healthcare in the UK. It employs verbatim drag-satire to re-enact an archive of healthcare experiences recorded with Birmingham's trans+ community.

Dr. XYZ: A Medical Drag Transthology

Displaying the faces and voices of transgender youth, the documentary short shows the authenticity of queer and trans people living in Toronto, while simultaneously discussing the struggles for self-acceptance that people who do not conform to cisgender and heteronormative ideals of gender face. Andy Nguyen, trans director and film student, captures his trans friends in their natural state on 16mm film shot on a Bolex h16 camera. Accompanied by narration written and recited by Salem Rao, this film represents that trans people exist and this is what we look like. Regardless of the obvious everyday transphobia, trans people find community and uniqueness within each other and themselves.

Heroes

We started thinking through testosterone in gel and expanded to elements such as tears; warm beer; holy water; and mercury. 

With such, we propose a new constellation of technologies through a narration on vulnerability. Tools to destroy and disappear, but also to expand and nourish. 

A homage to the symbolic link in a drop of water and a late-night DM; a soaked jacket coming back home and trying to resuscitate a phone in rice.


The film was created through a back-to-back dialogue between "makers". It’s a research on writing and filming, and simultaneously on affection and subjectivity. It was filmed in Super-8 and 16mm film.


We believe this piece fits this platform because not only it's a reflection on the rewiring of the mind and the body through transmasculinities, but also it's a piece that acts as a moment to breathe, be vulnerable, share and be in peace with uncertainty. It's as much about fear as it's about euphoria.

I Might Go and Throw My Phone Into The Lake, Yeah

This first feature documentary by Barbara Hammer, a pioneer of lesbian cinema, weaves striking images of four gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed forbidden and invisible history. 

Archival footage from the first gay film in the U.S., Lot In Sodom (1933) is interwoven in this haunting documentary.

Nitrate Kisses

Straight Boy Lessons is an experimental documentary that takes a celebratory look at a friendship between a transitioning FTMA transsexual and a cis man.

Straight Boy Lessons

 is a true glimpse into my continuous mental processing. A dialog which tends to reflect and deflect a generalized public perspective that is designed to dictate humanity.

Diamond’s grainy experimental film is the first in a series that tackles issues of sexuality with a fearless approach. Navigating the psychological manifestations of a hybrid gender identity, Diamond explores issues of body and mind capturing the complex nature of his topic.

The sequel to Man from Venus by James Diamond (super 8, 4 min, 1998). She's an answer without a question and he a question without answer. A sustainable foreground emerges only when they forge paths. A motion portrait where opposites distract and the peripheral rule is born.

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