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Adolfo Arrieta

The Adventures of Sylvia Couski (1972) 16mm, color, sound, 85.5 min

Genre: Narrative

Keywords: Comedy, Erotic, Music, Queer / Bi / Trans

This film is a musical comedy, or maybe a fairy tale... Everything reduced to the surface as in the paintings of the Primitive School, as in dreams, as in musical comedies... A story as a pretext for a series of portraits, and a series of portraits as a pretext for an invented story in an invented city (Paris), a city of transvestites trying to relive the Belle Epoque of festivities and art... "I saw Arrieta's film last June, in Toulon. It was made in Paris so I thought it was French and I was surprised to see a French film recording the world of the transvestite because this subject has been a tabu in modern (new) French cinema. Later I found out that Arrieta was Spanish, from Madrid, and that Paris was only one of his stations. "French or Spanish -- I found Arrieta's film compelling, informative, entertaining, and beautiful. As I said, its subject is the Paris transvestite scene and it's depicted with the flair of Jack Smith, the directness of Andy Warhol, and the special tenderness of Arrieta. I salute the Poet." -- Jonas Mekas, February, 1975.

Rental: $250.00

Shawn Atkins

Anastasia and the Queen of Hearts (1994) 16mm, color, sound, 5 min

Genre: Animation, Experimental

Keywords: Queer / Bi / Trans

Shawn Atkins' work in animation spans from making personal narrative films to teaching workshops to at-risk youth and curating programs of experimental animation. An animated love story.

Rental: $30.00

Shawn Atkins

Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat (2001) 35mm, DVD NTSC, color, sound, 16 min

Genre: Animation, Narrative

Keywords: Queer / Bi / Trans

This photo-collage animation is a surreal fairy tale that begins when a girl is awakened one morning by a mysterious seagull. She follows the bird to an abandoned garden, where she discovers the edge of the world and a single tree bearing tangled red fruit. The girl takes a bite of the fruit and is catapulted into a startling, violent and extended metamorphosis.

Rental: $85.00 (35mm), $50.00 (DVD NTSC)

Beverly Conrad

Coming Attractions (1970) 16mm, color, sound, 77 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Body, Erotic, Queer / Bi / Trans

"Coming Attractions" looks backward moment into the memories and forward into the future of Francis Francine (who first appeared in Flaming Creatures), an elegantly dowdy transvestite of, and indeed beyond, a certain age. The memories, haunted by a Spirit of Seductions Past suggest a generally lurid life of sumptuous sex and questionable liaisons.

Rental: $100.00

Peter Cramer

Black & White Study 1990 (1990) 16mm, black and white, silent, 8 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Comedy, Erotic, Films about Film, Media, Queer / Bi / Trans

FROM THE NAKED EYE CINEMA - An exploration of chiarusco, nudes, movement and film techniques in constantly shifting fields of perception. Eroticism and humor highlight an interracial couple engaged in a tableau vivant of opposites and attractions. Premiered at the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival (now MIX)Festival.

Rental: $20.00

Katrina Del Mar

A Beautiful Death (2006) DVD NTSC, Sound, 7 min

Genre: Narrative

Keywords: Body, Erotic, Queer / Bi / Trans

Called "radical" and "groundbreaking" by Nan Goldin, this lesbian vampire film features an unusual feeding frenzy and vampires playing rock "n" roll and board games.

Rental: $50.00

Linda Dement

Heart (1987) DVD NTSC, Color, Sound, 6 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Art, Artists, Body, Philosophical, Queer, Bi, Trans

A gang of punk girls, with knives, bikes, killer intent & a dingo, roam the streets, pash in public toilets and come to a confrontation in a back alley. A threatening naked figure in a dark interior demolishes a heart. A prisoner is taken. The ferret is washed clean of blood.

Rental: $40.00

Linda Dement

Heaven (1986) DVD NTSC, Color, Sound, 3 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Body, Philosophical, Queer, Bi, Trans

Punk surreal darkness from the streets of early 1980's Sydney; artist Jasmine Hirst eats diamonds, a dead pig's eye is gouged out, a girl aims her rifle & shoots while a voice reads from Bataille's "The Story of the Eye"

Rental: $40.00

Cecilia Dougherty

Joe-Joe (1993) VHS NTSC, color, sound, 52 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Art & Artists, Erotic, Queer / Bi / Trans

"In this tape, the life of gay playwright Joe Orton becomes the raw material for a queer lesbian theater of the absurd. Dougherty and Singer manage to create just the right visual universe for Joe-Joe and for their various enterprises: literary, sexual, familiar and otherwise. Primitive pixelvision-" -- Judith Halberstam Sale: $100 individual, $200 institutional

Rental: $75.00

Paula Gauthier

Which Is Scary (1991) 16mm, black and white, sound, 15 min

Genre: Experimental

Keywords: Queer / Bi / Trans

WHICH IS SCARY is a documentation of seven individual stories. It depicts through different circumstances the similar feelings of personal & social alienation experienced by each storyteller. It is a lesson of cause & effect in homosexual culture.--P. G.

Rental: $45.00