 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 

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

Utilising modes of queer bodily abjection and subversions of concrete poetry, 

attempts to explore relations between mimetic aversions of both bodily autonomy and visibility and trans depiction in everyday life and work.

A swell can be defined as “a long often massive and crestless wave or succession of waves often continuing beyond or after its cause” or as something “(especially of a part of the body) become[s] larger or rounder in size, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid” or “a full or gently rounded shape or form.” In “In the Field There is Swell,” I experiment with language use to distort traditional meanings of certain words or phrases and tropes, and here in particular, that of a swell, typically associated with descriptions of water or bodies of water.


This short film can be thought of as a poem with three verses in which a figure, myself, enters the frame, and seemingly doing not really anything at all, moves around awkwardly, almost attempting at times to move; uncomfortable and silly.


What is a body? What is a queer body? How might a queer body interact with space? What would this space look like? In a blue void a figure moves. In a blue void a queer figure moves. In a blue void a queer figure moves whilst wearing ridiculous (re-dyke-culous?) clothing, language and words interacting with the blue void, with the slow gentle music, within the space and its spacelessness and thus bodilessness; each silly phrase or word slowly taking on new and different and strange meanings. What does it mean to work?


I think in many ways this film has become about slowing down. When I initially began editing, the track I had composed was not quite long enough and thus I slowed it down by 50%, creating a sort of haunting, melodic, American Western-esqu e track that thumps and twangs and hums and groans, toying with the first clip of a “cowboy” shooting a gun at the camera, at the viewer.
Further, each verse has also been slowed down as well; the body’s movements becoming choppy, meaningless, and liminal; as if a delay between the body and the act of seeing the body has occurred.

In the Field There is a Swell

In this T4T heart-stopper, leather daddy Francisco puts newcummer leather boy toy Coyote to good use in a good old traditional queer leathersex ceremony. Boot worship, spanking, big clits and hitachi orgasms. 

Featuring Coyote and Francisco St. Laurent 

Leather Butches of Brunswick 

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

Toy and Novah are about to break up and move apart, all brought on by Toy’s crush on human estate agent Adele, but is she cis?

THEYSUCK

After exploring butch4butch bdsm dynamics in their 2020’s film 

, filmmaker Gen Kuzak chooses to delve into trans fag sexuality with their latest work, 

A narrator is masturbating, as they fall asleep… 

and in their dreams, Kuzak creates a space where actors can compose, freely, allowing them to show on screen what can’t be perform - vulnerability. By making the choice of staging a real life couple, 

transcends the idea of sexuality as a performance or physical aesthetics, allowing us to be the witness of how love expresses itself. Clear light, minimal staging and absolute freedom happening on screen : 

 is a new kind of hybrid, showing that sex can be raw and direct, and still be extremely moving, perfectly illustrating the saying - 

The French Boys

 fluctuates between fast and slow movements and methodologies of queer intimacy and lamentations of this idea of the home in relation to the queer body and vice versa.

My practice as of late has mainly centred around a science fictionalised exploration into trans-masc dyke-iness; a queer movement and bodily abjection in regards to searching for modes of home and unhomliness not based upon patrilineal spatialities of biological kinship. This has taken the form of a moving image work that “functions” as a sort of container, or maybe a digitised and chaotic sonic and video collage in which I have been
particularly focusing on the specifics of transition (pun intended); the harsh cut or fluid, pixelated merging of various clips. This has culminated in a piece of work that fluctuates between fast and slow movements and methodologies of queer intimacy and lamentations of this idea of the home in relation to the queer body and vice versa.

The Space Dykes and Other Adventures

An interview with Leon Bonnici, a 26-year-old Maltese trans man. He talks about his trans journey, family, his t4t relationship, medical transitioning, work and his love for the sea.

To Be a Man

 takes its title from the name of "the most exciting political action group in the USA"— transgender people who are defining themselves, demanding their legal rights, and fighting for medical care and against job discrimination.

 gives viewers remarkable insight into the home and work lives of transsexuals from many cultures and countries, including FTMs and those with families and children.

 (NOTE: This release is unfortunately cut short by several minutes.)

Considered by von Praunheim to be the “most fascinating [project] in my long life as a filmmaker,” 

 is a sensitive and carefully crafted portrait that deals with issues openly and honestly. “I was able to earn the trust of many who are often reluctant to be interviewed." 

Transexual Menace 

An utterly fascinating, beautifully crafted exploration of the world of drag kings—women who dress, perform and/or live as men. 

Shot over a period of several years, we enter into the intimate lives of the film's subjects, Drag King pioneer Diane Torr, garbed as her alter ego Danny King, German performance artist Bridge Markland and in London, Del LaGrace Volcano a photographer whose startling images take us into a subculture of “new men” who experiment with male hormones.

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