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Director: Gaulke, Cheri
Year: 1993
Synopsis: A lesbian couple reflects on the spiritual relationship between the death of their close gay male friend and the forthcoming birth of their child.

Director: Friedrich, Su
Year: 1993
Synopsis: An Oldsmobile station wagon serves as a touchstone to a love affair in Su Friedrich's witty and resonant Rules of the Road.

Director: Godmilow, Jill
Year: 1993
Synopsis: In one of his final, bravura performances, Ron Vawter—a founding member of the experimental Wooster Group—reinvents the essence of two very different white gay men, both of whom died of AIDS: Roy Cohn, the closeted, high-rolling lawyer who rallied to Joseph McCarthy’s side during the Communist witch hunts, and Jack Smith, the erstwhile filmmaker (Flaming Creatures) and flamboyant godfather of camp. The lives of these two men, worlds apart, are brilliantly woven together in a collage of live performance, taped rehearsals, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of actor and audience. Vawter, who starred in several stage productions and films—most recently as a homophobic attorney in Philadelphia—died of AIDS less than seven months after this film was made. Jill Godmilow expertly captures his legacy on film, his uncanny ability to move within a character and find the ticking parts. For the Roy Cohn role, Gary Indiana reimagines the text of a speech that Cohn gave to the American Society for the Protection of the Family; it’s a masterful evocation of the man who could excoriate gays and Jane Fonda between loving paeans to his domineering mother. Jack Smith wrote the performance piece recreated here. Bedecked in seraglio drag, Vawter’s Smith draws us into a private harem, where kitsch winks slyly at the “Sodom and Gomorrah” of Cohn’s antigay rants.Also produced by Marianne Weems.

Director: Aubert, Elisabeth
Year: 1993
Synopsis: A few glances and an ambiguous dialogue between two women lead us to Pigalle, where quietly we transgress the boundaries of a forbidden world.

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