‘RAIN ON ME’
COVID-19 shocked the world and changed the way we did everything, For some artists it challenged and inspirited them to do what the do best – create exceptional films by, for or about our LGBTQ+ landscape. COVID 19 shocked the world and changed the way we did everything, For some artists it challenged and inspirited them to do what the do best – create exceptional films by, for or about our LGBTQ+ landscape.
The Short Films in this Program Feature:
CLOSET COMBAT | Directed by Augustus Hinton | 2021 | USA | 3 Minutes
A closeted high school boy handles the stress of social interactions that risk “outing” him by fantastically imagining them as a situation he’s more comfort- able tackling: a classic, 2D fighting game.
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COVID SUMMER | Directed by Todd Verow | 2020 | USA | 3 Minutes
Shot on super8 film using single frame photography, COVID SUMMER condenses all the anxiety, insanity and stir crazy sexual tension of the COVID-19 summer of 2020 into just over 3 minutes.
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LILIES | Directed by Joni Renee Whitworth | 2020 | USA | 9 Minutes
A queer love story set during COVID lockdowns where the personal and political collide and comingle, forcing one woman to interrogate birth, becoming, class, femme health, and gay sufficiency against a backdrop of farm simulator games, archival agricultural footage, b-roll, domestic scenes, and psychedelic abstraction.
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SWIMMING TO THE END OF THE WORLD | Directed by Todd Verow | 2020 USA | 7 Minutes
A world-weary gay man remembers lost lovers as he swims from the Christopher Street Piers in New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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SISTER | Directed by Pavel Frolov | 2020 | USA | 4 Minutes
Two gay Russians chat about life after hooking up and who they truly are.
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75 CENTS | Directed by Safi Jafri | 2021 | USA | 9 Minutes
The midnight bus greets a Boy just trying to catch some sleep, but the Man who boards after has more intimate ideas in mind… plus tip.
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THE ODYSSEY | Directed by Emmanuelle Mattana | 2021 | Australia | 7 Minutes
Zoom class finally gets interesting for 13 year old Kiki when she discovers that her computer screen doubles as a portal into her crush’s bedroom.
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THE VIRTUAL CONNECTION directed by Billy Clift 2021, 16 USA
A man of a certain age, newly single after a long relationship, finds himself navigating dating and romance through the mediator of the smart phone.
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THE DUMMY | Directed by KHo & Trevor Bukowski | 2021 USA | 18 Minutes
Quirky, funny and poignant, this film follows Marin County Recycle artist KHo counting down the days to the 2020 election. Relying on items she finds in the neighborhood — most prominently a pink pussyhatted mannequin and a chalkboard — she unrelentingly voices her protest.
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AIMEE VICTORIA | Directed by Chrystee Pharris | 2021 USA | 11 Minutes
Aimee Victoria is a short film conceived and created entirely remotely during the lockdown of 2020 and inspired by true stories of relationships from disabled and LGBTQ+ people which never make it to the screen.
