James Kleinmann

Movies

You Can't Stay Here
Producer
Rick, a photographer, witnesses the brutal murder of a gay man in Central Park. With the cops taking little interest in the crime, a dangerous and sexy game of cat and mouse ensues between Rick and the killer, Adam.
You Can't Stay Here
Rick, a photographer, witnesses the brutal murder of a gay man in Central Park. With the cops taking little interest in the crime, a dangerous and sexy game of cat and mouse ensues between Rick and the killer, Adam.
F***ed in the Head
Scott is still sleeping with his ex-boyfriend and floundering through life when his mother calls to tell him his older sister Maggie is in the hospital with a brain tumor. Scott rushes to be by her side. As she lies unconscious he remembers the times their lives intersected. She was a party girl, a popular girl, she got around. Scott imagines what Maggie would say but ultimately realizes that you can never truly know anyone and decides to take a chance on love and life.
My Almost First Time
Based on filmmaker Charles Lum's own experience of going to a gay beach as a young man and almost having sex for the first time.
Swimming to the End of the World
Producer
A world-weary gay man remembers lost lovers as he swims from the Christopher Street Piers in New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Swimming to the End of the World
A world-weary gay man remembers lost lovers as he swims from the Christopher Street Piers in New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Covid Summer
Shot on super8 film using single frame photography, Covid Summer condenses all the anxiety, insanity, and stir-crazy sexual tension of the summer of 2020.
Goodbye Seventies
In the 1970s, the golden age of gay pornography in New York City, a promising chorus boy is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught and unimpressed with the "art" films playing seedy Times Square theaters, he gets his friends and lovers together and they start making their own hardcore movies. Against all odds the films are wildly successful until drugs, AIDS and cheap video technology bring it all crashing down
Cruising 2020
Director of Photography
An update on William Friedkin's classic film CRUISING.
Cruising 2020
An update on William Friedkin's classic film CRUISING.
I Have Mike Pence's Dick in a Pickle Jar. Want to See It?
Producer
While cruising for sex, a gay man has a once-in-a-lifetime chance to right some recent political wrongs and make America great again.
Squirrels
Three young artists; a trans opera singer/dj, a middle eastern American performance artist and a gay film maker, share a tiny studio apartment while they look for love and fame in NYC. They scrimp and save and scam and steal their way from month to month somehow they survive but in the new world shared economy they are just one click away from losing everything.
LDR
Two gay men navigate a burgeoning long distance relationship with the help of video calls.
LDR
Producer
Two gay men navigate a burgeoning long distance relationship with the help of video calls.
LDR
Editor
Two gay men navigate a burgeoning long distance relationship with the help of video calls.
LDR
Screenplay
Two gay men navigate a burgeoning long distance relationship with the help of video calls.
LDR
Director
Two gay men navigate a burgeoning long distance relationship with the help of video calls.
This Side of Heaven
V, an older trans woman, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent stabilized apartment in New York City.
Age of Consent
Associate Producer
The story of the HOIST, London's first and only Gay Fetish Bar, coincides with the political struggle to decriminalize homosexual activity within the United Kingdom.
The End of Cruising
A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.