Hetherman, Margaret

1994

Margaret Hetherman's award-winning film Forms and Motifs is inspired by Kalman Egyed's collection of exquisite beadwork and embroidered designs. A young woman, Cece, is not satisfied with the direction her life is taking when she discovers her grandfather's portfolio of designs. She decides that these patterns need to come to life and enlists the help of her surrogate family, three lively drag queens. Their goal? To create a most glamorous piece! It becomes a reality, but can they make it on the runway? All the designs in this delightful film were authentically revived.

Zalcock, Bev

1994

Bev Zalcock's Fireworks Revisited takes a girlie angle on Kenneth Anger's homoerotic classic, Fireworks (with a bit of Scorpio Rising thrown in for good measure).

Herman-Wurmfeld, Charles

1994

The night before Fanci's wedding to luscious girlfriend Loretta, a spell settles upon San Francisco. Power outages course through the city and Fanci's family and friends are swept into a dream world where magic takes precedent over reality.Things start to fall apart, beginning with the happy couple who disagree over the guest list. Just one block away, Olive and Theo, two of Fanci's closest friends, are planning a mystical wedding ceremony while her archconservative parents Irving and Irene (played by Justin Bond) are refusing to attend the wedding. Olive and Theo have a falling out and do battle in the realm of magic. Their occult shenanigans cause everyone to go to pieces, including Fanci's mother, who finds herself on a journey through the city's sexual underground. At her bachelorette party, Fanci's reprieve from all the wackiness is only momentary when she finds herself inflicted by a series of nightmarish visions which catapult her naked and screaming through the streets of San Francisco. Can the girl get a grip on herself to make it to her own wedding? Tensions build and everything comes to a spectacular conclusion at the much awaited wedding ceremony.

Contempo, Museo

1994

The Freeak Show is in town, and you're invited to join ringmasters Jeffrey Winter, Charles Wurmfelt, and Alison Hennessy queers in a night of gender-bending, uppity-low-budget video and the tailor-made media circus Fabian's Freeak Show by Museo Contempo. Warning: Fabian's Freeak Show contains campy yet rather graphic violence and even a little taste of the sexually explicit.

Gignac, Paula

1994

Excess Is What I Came For is a beat-driven, flesh-filled document of the nocturnal paradise that was Toronto's The Boom Boom Room.

Kelly, Joe

1994

Joe Kelly's ESP vision about the murder of supermodels as witnessed through the eyes of the killer, á la The Eyes of Laura Mars.

Kelly, Joe

1994

Joe Kelly's ESP vision about the murder of supermodels as witnessed through the eyes of the killer, á la The Eyes of Laura Mars.

Borden, Lizzie

1994

Clearly aimed at hip straight audiences, this high-gloss package of feminist erotica showcases the latest work of three talented women filmmakers, including festival favorites Monika Treut (My Father is Coming, The Virgin Machine) and Lizzie Borden (Born in Flames), alongside Hong Kong director Clara Law (Autumn Moon). Erotique is an interesting and ambitious experiment, bringing the combined ideas of Cosmo, Playgirl, and On Our Backs to the silver screen. Lizzie Borden's Let's Talk About Sex (cowritten by San Francisco's own Susie Bright) follows the erotic entanglement of a spunky, bisexual Latina phone-sex worker and her sleazy male client. Borden and Bright also include some nice queer characters in the background: the gay sex-line manager and the protagonist's best friend, a dyke cop. Monika Treut's Taboo Parlor is the stylish adventure of a pair of lusciously predatory, lipstick lesbians. With cameo appearances by musician Tanita Tikaram and Marianne Sagebrecht (Bagdad Cafe), Taboo Parlor echoes the look of Madonna's Open Your Heart peepshow video as it offers up a smart twist on Basic Instinct.  And lastly, in Clara Law's beautiful Wonton Soup, Hong Kong provides the backdrop for a straight couple's erotic encounters and reflections on Chinese identity.

Stanley, Anie

1994

Easy Garden is Anie Stanley's lyrical silent montage of carnivals and girls.

Dickenson, Frances

1994

Drip is Frances Dickinson's imaginative and zany Strictly Ballroom on a budget.