The Wheelchair Man
A young couple who collect rare folk ballads discover the dark side of love when they surreptitiously record and translate an ancient, taboo folk song from the deep, forgotten past.
self
미국 뉴욕 시의 이스트빌리지 예술 현장. 예술가 여럿이 등장하여 이야기를 펼치고 자신만의 예술을 선보이며 1980년대부터 2017년까지 광범위한 예술계를 영상에 함축적으로 풀어낸다. 이를 통해 우리는 예술계의 흐름을 자세히 살펴볼 수 있게 되고 예술계 속의 퀴어들이 지금까지 펼쳐온 활약을 볼 수 있다. 그중에서도 에이즈라는 질병의 위험 속에서 예술 현장에 대해 깊이 사유하는 이들을 집중하며 바라본다면 사고가 확장되는 것을 느낄 수 있을 것이다.
Himself
Looks like an alien, sings like a diva - Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980s' most profoundly bizarre characters to emerge through rock music: a counter tenor who sang pop music like opera and brought opera to club audiences and made them like it. The Nomi Song is a film about fame, death, friendship, betrayal, opera, and the greatest New Wave rock star that never was!
Painter
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering.
Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's irresistibly corruptive allure was the only underground feature by writer-director Anders Grafstrom. A Swedish art director who relocated to NYC, he created this grandiose No-Wave, Super-8 color-epic at the age of 23, only to die in a Mexican car accident a few months after completing the film.
Caligula
Nares mocks up Ancient Rome by shooting in faux-classical sites like Grant's Tomb and Tribeca's American Thread Building, where a decrepit penthouse loft with a peeling-paint dome serves as an echoey stand-in for the imperial palace. The latter location required ingenuity: Posing as potential renters, Nares and associates asked the manager to show them the apartment, then unlocked the windows on the way out; a few hours later, they broke back into the space, full cast and crew in tow, to shoot the necessary scenes.
Stars Patti Astor as a waylaid heroine fending for herself in the wild, filmed guerilla style in Central Park.
