Bonauro, Tom

1991

San Francisco band Voice Farm and Oblong Rhonda get themselves some of that. This time the extended version.

Friedrich, Su

1991

Friedman, Peter

1991

Lesbians and gays from around the world have created a variety of housing situations that reflect their lifestyles, as well as their social and political status. Fighting in Southeast Louisana is a portrait of Danny Cooper, an openly gay mailman living with his lover in a Victorian house in Vinton, Louisiana. Red Ribbon Award Winner: 1992 American Film and Video Festival

Wood, Brian

1991

Fantasy Island creatively uses plasticine animation and, yes, Ethel Merman to portray the homophobia in Britain's Isle of Man, where until recently homosexuality was completely illegal.

Ayres, Tony

1991

"I don't think there were any," is the constant refrain of white Australia on the subject of lesbian and gay Aborigines. Double Trouble proves them wrong with insight and a sharp edge of humor. Young urban Aboriginals—and older men and women from rural backgrounds— describe their first sexual experience, the racism of the white gay scene, and the contradictions of living in collision between the third and first world.

Roques, Philippe

1991

Exploring the forbidden—men touching men.

Chasnoff, Debra

1991

This 1991 Academy Award®-winning documentary uncovers the disastrous health and environmental side effects caused by the production of nuclear materials by the General Electric Corporation.

Dougherty, Cecilia

1991

This hysterically funny epic about a brutally realistic American family does for lesbians what John Waters did for Baltimore. While disrupting everything audiences expect about plot and acting, director Cecilia Dougherty grabs our emotions on her own terms. Her sharp and skillful original visual style recreates moments, like memories, that will resonate with an audience's own deeply felt emotions about family, illness, and sexuality. Video artist Leslie Singer plays the protagonist Jane Dobson. Under the thumb of her sleazy, evil father (brilliantly portrayed by novelist Kevin Killian), Jane is not the hero of her own life. She's simply there. But when Jane escapes from the structured narrative of her family back in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Coal Miner's Granddaughter opens up into the impressionistic world of her sexuality, laughing aloud throughout. Dougherty continues the work of her earlier videos Kathy, Claudia, and the much acclaimed Grapefruit, to insist on the highly charged sexuality and power of ordinary women. She enjoys how we really make love. Her camera makes all the posing and artificiality that have become staples of lesbian erotica seem tepid and silly. Dougherty's camera jumps right into the fray to the tune of "Total Abandon."

Suggs, Dawn

1991

Using dream sequences and flashback, a black woman memorizes one night's haunting experiences. Poetic film language helps her escape.

1991