Nauffts, Geoffrey

1999

Depicts an encounter between a gay school teacher and a Midwestern adoption agent as they struggle for some kind of common ground.

Von Kleist, Nicole

1999

An erotic setting is revisited from the artistic and creative point of view: the protagonist/s transform/s sexual relationships in creative and passionate production of life.

Koutras, Panos H.

1999

That summer evening a giant, mobile and mortal piece of Mousaka appears in the streets of Athens. For 36 hours it crawls through the big avenues leaving death, panic and chaos on its way. Why? What? How? For what reason?

A politician and his junkie wife, a full-figured fashion designer, a ruthless television news correspondent, three hunky gay astronomers, and a ship full of scantily clad aliens collide in this campy Greek drag UFO musical. While buzzing about Athens in their spaceship, ditzy aliens transport one of their comrades to the surface, unexpectedly melding her cells with those of a discarded piece of mousaka. The mousaka grows to colossal proportions and begins a murderous rampage through the city streets. Television crews spring into action with investigative reporter Evi Bei in the lead. Portly fashion designer Tara risks her life, zipping to the Center for Cosmic Research on her motor scooter to report the UFO. There she meets and falls for the handsome director, Alexis, who escorts her home and spends the night. Meanwhile, seeing the creature as a threat to his reelection bid, the Minister of the Environment decides to bomb it. In classic B-movie fashion, all is well in the end, but before the malevolent mousaka can be returned to its harmless state, a number of people will die, a lucky few will fall in love, and the world will almost come to an end.

Topiary, Samuael

1999

Dance film based on Greek myth of Atlanta, the girl who ran as fast as the wind.

Conceived and directed by Samuael Topiary, Atalanta is a campy, whimsical dance film, shot in vibrant color in silent super 8 film, in locations throughout San Francisco. It is also a contemporary, queer revision of the classic Greek myth about a girl who can run as fast as the wind and must win a race to remain unmarried. Using contemporary choreography, movement and gesture set to an original sound-score, Topiary has created a post-feminist meditation on competition, gender and the power of desire for the unattainable. In addition to telling the story of an archetypal feminist heroine and the Fool who falls in love with her, Topiary also uses the narrative framework of the Atalanta story to contextualize San Francisco's homegrown style of contemporary choreography – movement which relies on acrobatic facility and momentum. Numerous well-known local and national performers appear in Atalanta, including Samuael Topiary herself as the Fool, choreographer and performer Remy Charlip as the King, and dancers Jessica Lutes as Atalanta, Sarah Gina Jones as the Messenger and Sue Roginski as Aphrodite.

Nolan, Monica

1999

Amy Boyd can't escape the thrills and pitfalls of romantic pursuit.

Achmat, Zackie

1999

A queer history of South Africa from colonial times to the present.

Mixing interviews and historical reenactments, Zackie Achmat's inspiring documentary APOSTLES OF CIVILISED VICE traces queer history in South Africa from colonial times to the present. Between 1910 and 1933, one estimate says that over 60,000 men were convicted of sodomy and "unnatural offences" by laws that were only dropped from statute books in 1998. The majority of those tried, convicted, and imprisoned were black men unable to afford legal representation. Looking at the law's larger implications, Achmat doesn't lose sight of the individual stories that it manifested: From the nineteenth century, there is the story of Dr. James Barry who was accused of multiple counts of sodomy and whose death revealed a shocking fact — that he was a woman. In 1902 a white confectioner and a black cook were caught by police and jailed for sodomy. And a notorious gang of criminals prided themselves on their same sex relationships, both in and out of prison. APOSTLES OF CIVILISED VICE makes hidden queer histories visible and gives voice to gays and lesbians silenced by colonial rule and apartheid laws, which criminalized and marginalized same sex desire.

Nijar, Bobby

1999

A tongue in cheek story about how one girl came out the wrong way.

Dimas, Christos

1999

A Greek man comes to SF and tries to find his way towards the American dream.

1999

1999

Sequel to the Emmy award winning Before Stonewall chronicles the history of gay life since 1969. Narrated by Melissa Etheridge.

It’s been 30 years since the hot summer nights of June 1969 when queers fought back against the harassment and extortion of New York City police. Now this powerful new sequel to Before Stonewall proclaims that "everything changed after Stonewall. It lead us to a time when millions of homosexuals around the world would no longer hide their identity. It also marked the beginning of a seismic shift in society at large. How did this happen? How did a new openness among gay people transform virtually every area of life?" To document the many milestones in the struggle for lesbian and gay civil rights, the filmmakers have assembled remarkably rare archival photographs, ephemera and moving image footage (including clips of Stonewall itself, early demonstrations, performances by Bette Midler and Sylvester, Gay Games, Lesbian Avengers and much more). Narrated by Melissa Etheridge, the film features an amazing assortment of queer luminaries, principally from New York and San Francisco, offering their astute perspectives on the movement’s strides and setbacks including: Dorothy Allison, Rita Mae Brown, Jim Fouratt, Barbara Gittings, Jewelle Gomez, Karla Jay, Larry Kramer, Craig Lucas, Armistead Maupin, Rev. Troy Perry, among many others. The film, sensitive to complex issues of class, race and gender, is a wonderful achievement – a historical survey that is thrilling, poignant and informative.