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Director: Raab, Kurt
Year: 1989
Synopsis: Three and a half years before work began on this videotape, German actor Kurt Raab was commissioned to write a book about himself and the New German Film. The book was never completed. Instead, Raab decided to do sketches on video with Hanno Baethe. Six of the thirty-three sketches were completed before Raab learned that he was HIV positive. A short time later he was confined to bed in a Hamburg hospital, dependent on the help of others. Shot up to the time he died, A Yearning for Sodom presents excerpts from the video sketches, scenes from Raab's film work with Fassbinder, and interviews with Raab and his actor friend and main caregiver, Hans Hirschmuller.

Description: This year's Bi Shorts program begins with INDEPENDENT LITTLE CUSS, the story of nationally known disability advocate Carole Patterson, a bisexual woman who takes on the world with offbeat humor and brutal honesty. In WISTFUL we meet a woman who accidentally double-books her dates one night. In the morning, she's gone but the two dates may have found what they were looking for anyway. A young Asian American woman searches for love and the right person in TELEFUNK8 A man and a woman are left picking up the pieces after their lover flies too close to the sun in ICARUS. The program concludes with E-MALE a fetchingly shot tale about a woman who impersonates her (ex) boyfriend and slowly falls in love and lust with another woman via the internet.