Michael, Ginsburg
Goralsky

1990

Kalliat, Prem

1990

Explores the life of a transsexual and her community in the South Indian City of Bangalore. It provides a unique insight into the lifestyle of Hijdas -- a society of enuchs who have thrived in India for centuries.

Kalliat, Prem

1990

Explores the life of a transsexual and her community in the South Indian City of Bangalore. It provides a unique insight into the lifestyle of Hijdas -- a society of enuchs who have thrived in India for centuries.

Dunye, Cheryl

1990

Bressan, Arthur

House of Color, House of Color

1990

House of Color's I Object uses fast editing to ask questions about who is excluded from conventional images of beauty and eroticism.

Parmar, Pratibha

1990

A sensual tapestry of the life and work of Indian lesbian poet Suniti Namjoshi.

Fung, Richard

1990

A documentary look at four Asian men living with HIV infection.

Mohabeer, Michelle

1990

Hinton, David

1990

Wild, cruisy sex, that staple of gay male identity, is not what it used to be. The added bonus issue of mortality has made it quirkier, riskier, and more enticingly forbidden. Its inherent dysfunctionality, however, has never seemed steamier than in the salaciously arty Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men. In this surprisingly homoerotic British television (!) version of a dance/performance piece by the London-based DV8 Physical Theatre, anonymous sex is sweat-soaked, serious business with arousing, if somber, consequences. But, like the real thing, getting there is too delicious to do without. Filmed in starkly lit, anguish- and muscle-enhancing black and white, Dead Dreams looks like a living George Platt Lynes photograph set in a fevered, prisonlike bar world, pulsating with wordless sexual narratives, twitchy erotic appetites and well-shorn, hunky men. DV8's extremely physical choreography, while at times almost acrobatic, is appropriately rooted in urban sexual realism. Seamlessly woven into the "dance" are universally recognizable cruising rituals, cigarette smoke, boot licking, S&M, jockey short fetishes, and not-so-dry humping. Easily transcending the stigmas of both dance and television with its use of angst-ridden sexual truth, Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men ultimately posits an unlikely, white hot link between performance art and performance anxiety.