Amesen, Heidi

1997

Local Bay Area lesbian feature

Gee, Daven

1997

A portrait of a gay man’s father on the family farm based on a series of poems the filmmaker wrote about lessons learned about work.

Farrow, Jane

1997

What’s it like to be queer out in the “rural” world? In So Over the Rainbow, a post-modern dyke and fag take a road trip and gain a newfound respect for their community.

Zalutsky, Sam

1997

What happens when you are in love with your best friend but don't know how to tell him?

Leban, Lexi

1997

Crane, Cathy Lee

1997

Re-tracing a 1991 trip to East Germany exposes the complexity of memory. A portrait of longing and absence.

Cathy Lee Crane's short film Sketches After Halle re-traces a trip to East Germany and exposes the complexity of memory.

Ozon, Francois

1997

A happy family begins showing signs of perversion when Dad brings home a laboratory rat.

What if Ozzie & Harriet and June & Ward Cleaver decided to partner swap? What if Richie Cunningham got sweet for Ralph Malph? Jan Brady a lesbian? I wouldn't be surprised and neither would Alice. Those sweet kids from "Eight is Enough"? Where do I begin? Trannys, hookers, drug addicts...I watch "Jenny Jones." And what if Wally started humping beave...THE Beaver? Well, that's what happens to one upper-middle class family in Sitcom, a French farce that mixes Pedro Almodovar's love for the absurd with John Waters' disdain for family values. Mom is a housewife, Dad's an engineer, and their two lovely children are students. Okay, so their Spanish maid's a little nutty, but it’s not until Dad brings home a lab rat for a pet that things really get out of hand. As each family member comes into contact with the rat, they begin to show signs of perversion. The son announces he is gay at dinner, Sis tries to commit suicide and exhibits sado-masochistic tendencies, the maid and her husband prove to be swingers and even mother has her weaknesses. Sounds like another Aaron Spelling production to me. Sitcom sends it all up and had me asking that burning question, just what kind of relationship did Danny Partridge and Reuben Kinkaid really have?

McCabe, John

1997

A romantic comedy about a conservative gay man who tries to meet the man of his dreams at a wild night club.

Rappaport, Mark

1997

Subrin, Elizabeth

1997

Bends time and cinematic code alike, projecting the viewer 30 years into the past to rediscover a woman out of time and a time out of joint.

While there has been much discussion of filmmakers faking documentaries, Elisabeth Subrin and Jill Godmilow have gone one step further. Each in her own distinctly different way has painstakingly remade a documentary film from the 1960s. Their films allow us the unique opportunity to re-examine universal questions of gender, race, class and war through the re-appropriation of an old lens.In 1967, a student film crew from Chicago shot a documentary on art student Shulamith Firestone, who three years later wrote the ground-breaking feminist text "The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution." Subrin’s film Shulie is a shot-by-shot, line-by-line remake using the conventions of ‘60’s direct cinema to explore the residual impact of social movements and the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction films. Jill Godmilow’s film is literally and stubbornly a remake of Harun Farocki’s experimental documentary Inextinguishable Fire, which deals with the development of napalm by Dow Chemical during the Vietnam War. Godmilow’s appropriation reopens Walter Benjamin’s discussion of art in the age of mechanical reproduction and turns What Farocki Taught into an agit-prop challenge to the conventional documentary’s representation of information, history, politics and experience.