 is an attempt to create a subjective gaze at a professional porn set. Contrasting the proximal POVs of performers Jamal Phoenix and Billy Vega with an at times tableau-vivant-like outside perspective, it oscillates between intimacy and distance.

2 or 3 Things I Like About Him 

Two San Francisco FTM transexuals sit in their back yard and discuss their daddy/boy relationship, transgender life, love, tattoos and tomato plants.

Boys in the Backyard 

Elijah and Billy are two trans bros who just happen to enjoy jerking off together. When Billy starts dating a woman, Elija must come to terms with his feeling for Billy and his own burgeoning homosexuality.

Bros Before

This work by LA-based artist Rhys Ernst invokes the story of Lou Sullivan, trans man and AIDS activist largely responsible for establishing the distinction between gender identity and sexual orientation. Cut with images of Ernst’s own examination of this figure and trans history, the video is structured by the search for and desire to identify transmasculine elders and an intergenerational exploration of gay transmasculine identity. Utilizing interview footage, excerpts of Sullivan’s book “Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual," VHS gay porn, and Grindr chats, 

 is a meditation on the life of the late trans man and AIDS activist that explores the bodily intersection of transmasculine gay and HIV+ identity.

 a program of seven videos that bring together charged moments and memories from their personal perspective amidst the public history of HIV/AIDS.

Dear Lou Sullivan

In this dual projection slideshow of collaged imagery,

tells the story of a housefly who transitions into a man in order to cruise gay bars. 

 is appropriated from the short erotica, “The Dildo in my Pocket,” published in Manscape (March 1985). The original story is about a “woman” who “disguises herself” as a man in order to pursue the gay man “she” is in love with. Despite using outdated language and transphobic tropes, the erotica accurately depicts the concerns and fears many trans-masculine people have about passing, takes seriously the gay desires that some trans-masculine people have for men, and portrays the main character as a competent lover, capable of bringing a cis gay man—and, presumably, Manscape’s readers—to orgasm.

Through the use of collaged images of flies onto sections of text from “The Dildo in my Pocket,” the main character is transformed into a housefly who transitions into a man. Through this reworking, the transphobia of trans people as grotesque is reworked into a science-fiction, anti-assimilationist parable. 

 holds onto Mascape’s trans-masculine history, while circumventing heteronormative gender-assignment.

FlyHole 

This is an ironic, voyeuristic, sensual and trans-re-vision of that meme and the concept of performativity. hotgirlsummer was one of the most popular memes of summer 2019. That summer I was in Lesbos on an island with a group of creative queer women having a very clichè week of workshops and pilgrimage to our goddess Sappho.


One of the workshop’s tasks was filming a short essay movie and, although the many stray cats were a purrfect clichè topic for a dyke week in Lesbos, I was just fascinated by one thing only, the calippo strawberry ice-lollipop. The sun and sounds of the sea and heat and calippos just turned me into an egocentric polysexual polymorphous and so 

Hot Goy Summer

Lou Sullivan discusses his mastectomy. Researched clips from: "Female to Gay Male Transsexualism: I-Gender & Sexual Orientation". 

Lou Sullivan: On His Top Surgery 

Kathy Acker's writing, and a seminal portrait of her taken by intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, provide a lens through which to explore trans subjectivity and the queering of cinema. Pol Merchan's hybrid doc fluidly moves from the documentation of the punk era to a more performative exploration of gender.

PIRATE BOYS

, the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred — this appears as an interview conducted by the director between two trans men. The video, a trans man’s fantasy, opens with frank discussions, such as testosterone injection sites marked by tattoos, then leads to sex.

Content note: Rapid flashing lights occur in the film at minute 34:30 – end.

Transmasculine Hole of the Universe

is a short narrative video about five transgender guys who, after discovering an internet article announcing the availability of penis transplants, plot ways to raise over a million dollars for surgery.

, and to Busby Berkeley and Peter Berlin movies, this action-packed comedy starts with the boys’ uneasy experiences of life as a “guy without a dick,” then follows their rosy fantasies of life “post-transplant,” and the crazy lengths to which they go to obtain surgery money. Fun and colorful, 

provides insightful commentary on the tyranny of body parts and mainstream culture’s policing of maleness from a queer perspective.

Unhung Heroes 

The Serranía Baja de Cuenca (Spain) is a land where two species of almonds are grown: larguetas and marconas. When the artist went to shake the almond trees with they family, Cienfuegos understood "mariconas" (faggot, in Spanish) instead of "marconas". 

Audio in Spanish, with English subtitles 

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