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Director: Contempo, Museo
Year: 1994
Synopsis: 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.

Director: Gignac, Paula
Year: 1994
Synopsis: 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.

Director: Kelly, Joe
Year: 1994
Synopsis: 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.

Director: Kelly, Joe
Year: 1994
Synopsis: 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.

Director: Borden, Lizzie
Year: 1994
Synopsis: 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.