Michelle Lawler

Michelle Lawler

Perfil

Michelle Lawler

Filmes

Mother Comes to Venus
Cinematography
In a post-gender Hollywood she helped create, powerhouse agent Venus Allen is besieged by unexpected events and demanding visitors. Blinded by success and in danger of losing her soul, Venus gets help from an unlikely source, her delightfully spiritual “mother.”
Águas que Corroem
Director of Photography
Uma universitária se perde a caminho de uma entrevista de emprego. Uma curva errada a deixa encalhada na floresta de Kentucky. A mulher deve se defender contra os elementos duros e um bando de bandidos impiedosos. Ela é forçada a uma aliança desconfortável com um estranho solitário que tem intenções desconhecidas.
Irmãs
Handsome Butch
Duas irmãs, uma responsável e amorosa e a outra especialista em perder empregos e namorados, resolvem dar uma última festa na casa onde passaram a infância, ao saberem que ela será vendida pelos pais. Elas pretendem aproveitar tudo que não puderam fazer no local quando eram mais novas.
How to Vajaculate: If You Build It, She Will Come
Cinematography
Mel learns how to take down the patriarchy and also the number one way to put women on top.
The Foundation
Director of Photography
A portrait of a site and its multiple layers of existence, The Foundation takes place around Tom of Finland’s Foundation in Los Angeles, exploring the multiple layers, sub-communities, interpersonal relations, and erotic and artistic imaginaries that this site hosts, promotes, and projects.
The Night Is Ours
Director of Photography
Tomboy Morgan is tortured by the sudden death of her best friend Olivia. At her wake, Olivia mysteriously comes back to life, and the two escape on a reckless road trip that takes them past the boundaries of friendship and into a dark and uncertain future.
You're Dead to Me
Cinematography
Andrea, a grieving Chicana mother, confronts an uninvited family member before her Día de los Muertos celebration. By night's end, death offers her a choice that she couldn't make in life.
Valencia
Cinematography
Valencia is a collaboration between a national community of queer filmmakers to adapt the underground classic memoir into a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco's Mission District in the early 90s during the rise of a punk lesbian diaspora told through the experiences of Michelle, a single rootless twenty-something searching for sex and love, drugs and adventure.
Valencia
Director
Valencia is a collaboration between a national community of queer filmmakers to adapt the underground classic memoir into a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco's Mission District in the early 90s during the rise of a punk lesbian diaspora told through the experiences of Michelle, a single rootless twenty-something searching for sex and love, drugs and adventure.
Wild Horses
Grip
Wild Horses tells the story of Mills, an established LA photographer, who returns to her native Nevada following an urgent call from her grandmother informing her that a band of wild horses close to their hearts, faces government roundup. In this story, that spans just one day, cruelty, courage, love and memory collide as two generations of women bear witness to the brutality common to wild horse roundups in the American West. Mills is exposed to a complex issue and follows her heart, choosing to ignore the consequences.
Best Friends Forever
Cinematography
Harriet, a comic book artist with a secret, and her reckless BFF, Reba, take their '76 AMC Pacer on the open road and instead get a wild ride towards an impending nuclear apocalypse.
Diagnosing Difference
Director of Photography
How does it feel to have your gender identity included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? Diagnosing Difference is a documentary featuring interviews with 13 diverse scholars, activists, and artists who identify on the trans spectrum (transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, and gender variant) about the impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) on their lives and communities.
Forever's Gonna Start Tonight
Camera Operator
The film tells the astounding life story of San Francisco living legend Vicki Marlane, America's oldest professional transgender drag entertainer. It explores the theme that creative expression is a transformative experience that allows one to overcome virtually insurmountable obstacles -- social, biological, economic and personal.
Forever's Gonna Start Tonight
Producer
The film tells the astounding life story of San Francisco living legend Vicki Marlane, America's oldest professional transgender drag entertainer. It explores the theme that creative expression is a transformative experience that allows one to overcome virtually insurmountable obstacles -- social, biological, economic and personal.
Forever's Gonna Start Tonight
Director
The film tells the astounding life story of San Francisco living legend Vicki Marlane, America's oldest professional transgender drag entertainer. It explores the theme that creative expression is a transformative experience that allows one to overcome virtually insurmountable obstacles -- social, biological, economic and personal.
Salomania
Director of Photography
Salomania reconstructs a dance: the ‘dance of the seven veils’ from Alla Nazimova’s 1923 silent film Salomé. Also shown and rehearsed are sections from ‘Valda’s Solo,’ which the choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer created after having seen Nazimova’s film.
Phineas Slipped
Restless schoolboys in class have daydreams that are sweet and romantic, hot and raunchy, and disturbingly violent.