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Director: Nix, Laura
Year: 1994
Synopsis: An autobiographical exploration of my relationship with a Victorian armchair.

Director: Giannaris, Constantine
Year: 1994
Synopsis: The collapse of Eurocommunism makes for strange bedfellows in the latest from Constantine Giannaris (Caught Looking, North of Vortex). Ilias (Stavros Zalmas), a bored and blasé thirty-five-year-old Athenian, falls in love with Panagiotis (Panagiotis Tsetsos), a muscular, eighteen-year-old economic refugee from Albania. These two have nothing in common, sexually or otherwise, but that doesn’t stop them from embarking on an emotionally lopsided, ill-fated relationship. Giannaris’s Genet-tinged narrative, related as much through carefully wrought imagery as dialogue, is heavy on atmosphere and the palpable sensation of desire. Taken literally, A Place in the Sun’s scenario is a queer activist’s horror—the beautiful Panagiotis isn’t above bilking and bashing gays, and Ilias willingly becomes an accessory after the fact to a capital crime—though anyone who’s ever been caught up in passion’s wild throes is likely to empathize with Ilias’s romantic and moral dilemmas.

Director: Demme, Jonathan
Year: 1994
Synopsis: When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small-time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

Director: Yung, Wayne
Year: 1994
Synopsis: Employs accordion accompaniment and explicit male/male sex to discuss the politics of sex.

Director: Ruven, Paul
Year: 1994
Synopsis: Part of a film triptych on AIDS supported by the Red Hot Organization in London, this haunting film symbolically explores the pain of loss and the search for community. With lush and startling imagery, director Paul Ruven takes us on a vision quest for liberation from the daily prison wrought by our emotional and psychic repressions.