1986

Kwietniowski, Richard

1988

A unique visual interpretation of Oscar Wilde's defense testimony ("The love that dare not speak its name . . .").

Tartaglia, Jerry

1988

An examination of AIDS fear, desexualization of homosex and dissolution of gay identity.

Duesing, James

1987

No further information available.

1986

Testing, Collective

1987

Denise Ribble, R.N., of the Community Health Project, New York, delivers safe-sex information in a wry, dry, and direct manner. Sound advice for men and women, gays, and straights.

Ripploh, Frank

1987

In 1981 gay audiences were stunned and delighted by a new, bold, sexy comedy from Germany, Taxi Zum Klo, a film that set new standards for gay cinema. Eight years later, Frank is back, and his life in anything but under control. He is still madly in love with men; he's always been short on money; and he has just been tied up and robbed by a hustler. On top of everything his mother thinks it's high time he kissed his idle ways good-bye and started thinking about holy matrimony—otherwise he could end up being cut out of her will. Frank finds Klara, an out-of-work actress who is willing to stage a marriage farce for his mother, but their scheme has just one snag: both Frank and Klara are in love with the same man, their neighbor Eugen. Suddenly jealousy is the order of the day, and Frank finds himself torn between competing with Klara for Eugen and still needing her to collect the inheritance. Goaded by Eugen, who maintains that with Frank being gay he will never be able to keep his wife, Frank snaps. He quickly engages a sex therapist to turn him into a heterosexual. His attempts to switch land him in a chaotic mess in which the neighbors, the police, and naturally his mother are all embroiled.

Haynes, Todd

1987

Yu, Taiyang

1987

McLaughlin, Sheila

1987

She Must Be Seeing Things, Sheila McLaughlin's first feature, is both very personal and nearly universal in its understanding of the dynamics of intimate relationships. Funny, touching, and very real, the story of Agatha, a lawyer, and Jo, her filmmaker girlfriend, is a deft exploration of jealousy's effect on a lesbian relationship.  Throughout the film Jo and Agatha's professional lives pose a striking contrast to the intimacy of their life together. The tension of their sexual attraction for each other and the details of that intimacy become a framework for the film's more explicit narrative. At the same time, the strength of their feelings comes to constitute a parallel drama—one that starts a dialogue with the current debates over women's sexuality in the ‘80s as well as with current theories on the nature of voyeurism in contemporary cinema. Sheila McLaughlin comes from the world of downtown New York theater, where she performed in the 197's with Richard Foreman's "Ontological Hysterical Theatre" company. Her first short film, Inside Out, screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 1978. Her most recent film, Committed, based on the life of Frances Farmer, was codirected wth Lynne Tillman. McLaughlin played Justin, the dazzling blonde seductreess in the hit of the 1985 festival, Seduction: The Cruel Woman.  Sheila Dabney (Agatha) and Lois Weaver (Jo) are both Obie Award–winning actresses and McLaughlin has gathered a crew for She Must Be Seeing Things of equal stature. Director of Photography Mark Daniels shot Yvonne Rainer's The Man Who Envied Women. while well-known German filmmaker Heinz Emigholz shot the integral period film-within-the-film segments. Acclaimed composer John Zorn makes his movie debut with his score, the sound-editing was done by Margie Crimmins, who worked on the Oscar-winning Witness to War, and the art director was Leigh Kyle, who did the art direction on Lizzie Borden's Working Girls.