No Skin Off My Ass (1991)
Being a fag is a definite plus
Gênero : Drama, Romance
Runtime : 1H 13M
Director : Bruce LaBruce
Sinopse
A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of "That Cold Day in the Park" then visits a local park to invite a down-and-out skinhead to his apartment. He draws the silent man a bath and talks to him as he soaks. He locks his guest in a bedroom. Next day, the skinhead leaves through the window and visits his sister, who's making a film called "Sisters of the SLA." He helps with a screen-test. The hairdresser has dreams and fantasies involving the skinhead, the skinhead returns to visit him, and then the filmmaker pays a call on the two men, exposing her brother as faking his silence and pretending a lack of sexual interest. Fantasies can come true.
In this verité-style drama, Anthony, a newcomer to San Francisco, attempts to come to terms with his abusive ex-lover when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a street hustler.
Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violence.
An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by Norman McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and ink. The main title is in eight languages. Rereleased with multilingual titles in 1949.
Sweet, chubby, theatrical Billy was never cut out to be a farmer or a rugby player, but as the only son of a ‘good kiwi bloke’ he’s obliged to try. The cows are stubborn and the chores gruelling but Billy finds escape in a fantasy world playing Lana, heroine of his favourite TV show Adventures in Space. Not everyone approves of Billy's transformation. On the brink of adolescene, he discovers growing up is more complicated than he could ever have imagined.
The film is made up of one single take. The camera pans to the left, focusing on a dilapidated fence in a rural field, as Ella Fitzgerald's "All My Life" plays on the soundtrack. At the end of the 3 minute film, the camera tilts up to the blue sky just as the song ends.
It’s not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party... One day (in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj hit the wall in their new terrace house in Rykkinn. Magnus is an architect, hippie and free spirit, a glaring exception in a community where equality and conformity is the norm. He always stands up for his son, supporting him unconditionally, even when Nikolaj decides to stop giving a damn.
O filme fala sobre o primeiro ano de faculdade de Joe, com os trotes típicos dos novatos e sua relação com seu irmão mais velho. Ele se interessa por Christian, que se declara um heterossexual com problemas. Tudo fica mais complicado quando Christian convida Joe para passar um fim de semana em uma cabana nas montanhas com sua noiva e seu irmão.
Cinco amigos recebem convites para uma orgia. Mas, para obter os detalhes, cada um deve enviar imagens reveladoras para aprovação. À medida que a festa se aproxima, as amizades são testadas, personalidades entram em choque, e histórias sexuais são descobertas.
Numa montagem paralela, o filme conta duas histórias distintas, que se passam em cidades, países e épocas diferentes. Uma delas se passa em Paris, nos anos 60, e relata a relação quase doentia de uma mãe e de um filho portador da Síndrome de Down. A outra se passa em 2011 em Montreal, no Canadá, e conta a história de um homem divorciado que, acreditando ter achado o amor da sua vida enquanto ainda criança, se surpreende ao ser arrebatado por um novo louco amor sem muita explicação para acontecer.
In a deconstruction of classic Hollywood codes, using repetitive single frame images, the re-editing of teenager movies produces an intense Oedipal drama.
Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.
An experimental short film by John Whitney Sr. which combines animated shapes and colors; Computer graphics as dynamic, swirling art.
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Ped perde sua namorada e fica de coração partido. Ele começa um trabalho novo e conhece Oiy que confessa o seu amor por ele. Ped rejeita Oiy por não se considerar gay. Como o passar do tempo um carinho relutante por Oiy lentamente se desenvolve.Nota
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Before Prop 8, Milk or Will & Grace, before the AIDS epidemic, gay pride parades or the Stonewall uprising, "The Boys in the Band" changed everything. "Making the Boys" explores the drama, struggle and enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to successfully reach a mainstream audience. Featuring anecdotes from the surviving cast and filmmakers, as well as perspectives by legendary figures from stage and screen, it traces the behind-the-scenes drama and lasting legacy of this cultural milestone.
A little Christmas magic causes two coworkers with contrasting lifestyles to switch sexual orientations.
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up. A man enters a room, a woman smiles. He sits, another man sits and smokes. The cat stretches. There are close-ups of each. The light is dim; a filter accentuates red. A bare foot stands on a satin sheet. A woman disrobes. She pets the cat.
Mergulhando em planos íntimos, Brakhage documenta o nascimento de sua primeira filha. Cadenciadas poeticamente, as imagens da mãe, sua face, corpo, barriga, mãos, e do afeto entre os pais compõem o retrato fragmentado e emocionante do momento do nascimento.
Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see patterns within wings, similar to the veins in a leaf. Sometimes the images look like paper cutouts, like Matisse. Green objects occasionally appear. Most wings are translucent. The technique makes them appear to be stuck directly to the film.
After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid change in the images. Two figures emerge from this jungle of color: the first, a shirtless man, appears twice, coming into focus, then disappearing behind the bursts and patterns of color, then reappearing; the second figure appears later, in the right foreground. This figure suggests someone older, someone of substance. The myth?
