VIDEOS/FILMS
The user should note that some short films (frequently between one and ten
minutes in duration) listed in the National Library of Canada’s
AMICUS catalogue as experimental have been omitted from this list.
The AMICUS catalogue (through the National Library of Canada website) should be
consulted for information in these cases.
The user might also examine the PopcornQ Movies section at
www.planetout.com to retrieve additional short and/or “experimental” items beyond
those few given in this list. The user could note that at the PopcornQ Web site there
is the capability, as of January 3, 2003, to perform a search to retrieve short films and
to
limit the search geographically to
Differences in inclusion among the various sources examined lead to additional
discoveries as the search broadens.
The evolution of film technology has rendered some items less accessible
(16mm films, for example). Transfer of obsolete formats to accessible ones would be
an important contribution to preservation of glbt history.
2 Seconds.
Directed by Manon Briand; distributors: France Films; Cowboy Booking
International; Wolfe
Video, 1998.
(35mm;
100 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed Jan. 2, 2003.
Subjects given in PopcornQ Movies: sports/leisure, bisexual.
Laurance, a “retired-bicyclist-gone-message-courier” – her story.
In French; also available with English subtitles.
Directed by Annette Mangaard; distributed by Canadian Film Centre, 1993.
(16mm; 18 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed January 3, 2003.
which calls this “a punchy story about an unusual kind of marital
problem.” Transgender issues and drag.
100% Woman.
Written by Karen Duthie & Diana Wilson; directed by Karen Duthie; produced by
Diana Wilson.
(1 DVD; 59 min.)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record nos. 33168503 and 32212380.
Also
information accessed
http://www.100percentwoman.com/ .
Documentary film about Canadian downhill mountain bike champion
Michelle Dumaresq, a post-operative transsexual. AMICUS record notes
that cover states “Sex change sparks furor” and also notes that the film
“[r]aises timely questions about what it means to be a ‘real’ woman
in the world of competitive sports and beyond.”
1045 rue
des Parlementaires. [Emission 180, 1er décembre 2003].
Sainte-Foy,
QC : Télé-Québec, c2003.
(1 videocassette; ca. 25 min.)
This may be broader than scope of the bibliography. However, one
French-language descriptor applied to AMICUS catalogue record no.
29281417 for this tape is Sortir du placard (Homosexualité) – Québec (Province)
1919.
Directed by Noam Gonick. [1997?]
(8 min.)
The only
reference seen is an article in the ultraconservative
Alberta Report, which attacks the film vigorously in an article
by John
Collision, “Angels in Assiniboia?” (v. 24, no. 29,
June 30, 1997, pp. 42-43;
full text available through CPI.Q index as of Nov. 11, 2000). The
article
states that “the movie is a self-described ‘gay fantasia’ on the great
General Strike which paralyzed
baths and plot the successful
overthrow of the sexually repressed
capitalist system.” This same
article also attacks
Mark Lubosch for participating in the film.
À corps perdu.
Directed by Léa Pool,
1988.
(1 videocassette; 92
min.)
Photographer, Pierre, returns to
a man and a woman in a ménage à trois, have left. English title:
Straight for the Heart.
After the
By John Greyson. Toronto: V-Tape, 1995.
(1 videocassette; ca. 52
min.)
“Follows the 1993 police investigation in
into
a child pornography ring. Gay activists
accused the police
chief
of manipulating terms and statistics to fuel a homophobic
witch-hunt,
pointing out that, of the 42 arrested, only 2 men were
dealing
in pornography but the rest were charged in relation to
(consensual)
teen prostitution. Those involved are
interviewed” –
summary
quoted from
Aids:
A Family Experience.
(1 videocassette; 33 min.)
Gay man and relatives describe feelings in learning of man’s disease and
gayness. Ref.:
Allo
Performance!
By Mirha-Soleil Ross & Mark Karbusicky.
(1 videocassette; 13 min.)
In French with English subtitles.
“From May 2001 to February 2002, transsexual artist Mirha-Soleil
Ross appeared pregnant every time she was in public as part of her
9 month long performance art cycle, ‘The Pregnancy Project”…
[which] explored transsexual women’s relationship to the personal
and institutional aspects of motherhood and hoped to foster
community discussion around controversial reproductive
technologies” – from videocassette container liner.
Here
she performs in
Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma.
Directed by Denis Langlois. 2005.
(1 videodisc)
See AMICUS catalogue record no. 31852533 for French-language entry of
title: Amnésie: l’énigme James Brighton. Montréal : Castor
& Pollux,
2005.
Note in the AMICUS record : “Version sous-titrée française,” from
cassette
label. Fuller credits and other information available in this catalogue
record.
Based on true events. Young American found naked in a Canadian parking
lot, suffering from amnesia, but remembers that he is gay and that his name
is James Brighton.
Seminal (the anthology listed in Literature – Poetry section) notes on
p. 345 that this was a 2006 award winner at the Toronto Inside Out Film
Festival.
Compiler note: Seminal also mentions (at the Bertrand Lachance entry,
p. 345) three additional films that are currently under development, one
being
the 1648 story of the man who becomes
executioner after being caught out at sodomy and being condemned to
death, a second being a fictional story “based on the author’s relationship
with bill bissett from 1969 to 1972,” and the third about “a young actor
turned violently homophobic on the set of a gay film in the 1990s.”
Interested user might like to follow up on these to see if they were
produced. The titles given by Seminal are, respectively, “The Incredible
Destiny of Matthew-The-Drummer,” “Rainbow Music,” and “My First
Film.” The Web site given is the following:
www.prod-castorpollux.com (viewed
Anatomy of Desire.
Directed by Jean-François Monette and Peter Tyler Boullata. Co-produced by the
National Film Board of Canada and Bare Bones Films in association with the
Discovery Channel
and Workweek Television Productions.
Cinema
Guild, c1995.
(1 videocassette; 48 min.)
Narrated by Brad Fraser, this video “looks at the history of scientific
research on the question of sexual orientation and how this research has
affected lesbian and gay rights” – Toronto Public Library catalogue note.
Anne Trister.
Directed by Léa Pool,
1985.
(35mm; 115 min.; French)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , which states
that “this is not a
fully realized lesbian love story
at all, though both women
discard
their boyfriends and acknowledge their need for each
other.”
Apples and
Lynne, Fernie and Laura
Kosterski.
2003.
(1 videocassette; 17 min.).
Ref.:
Centre (online) bibliography, “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual…,” which
bibliography is fully cited elsewhere in this list, in the Bibliographies
section.
The bibliographic annotation refers to this as a Health Elementary/Middle
Level film which “is designed to raise children’s awareness of the harmful
effects of homophobia and gender-related name calling, intolerance,
stereotyping and bullying….”
Additional ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33382859
The Astounding Adventures of Strongman
& Quickboy.
Filmmaker:
Peter Kingstone. [
(Video, 84 min)
“…homemade experimental-porno feature….” (from catalogue of
17th
Annual
Auto Biography.
By Dennis Day. [Toronto?]: V-Tape, 1993.
(Videocassette; 15 min).
Review: Earl Miller, “Dennis Day: Auto Biography.” Fuse [
17(4) (May/June 1994): 43.
B.C. College of Teachers v Trinity Western University, 2000-11-09.
[
(1 videocassette [ca. 255 min.] + 1 book [77 p.])
Supreme Court of Canada proceedings, including ca. 13-min. presentation
by Kenneth W. Smith, Equality for Gays and Lesbians
Everywhere (EGALE). Ref.: OCLC catalog accession no. 45756989.
Beautiful Dreamers.
Produced by Starway Films in co-production with the
National Film Board
of
National
Film Board of
(1
videocassette; 105 min.)
Stars
Colm Feore, and Rip Torn as Walt Whitman.
“Based on historical
events,
this film recounts the meeting of poet Walt Whitman and the
superintendent
of a
Bucke]
and Whitman’s subsequent visit to the asylum.
Whitman’s
avant-garde
and enlightened ideas on mental illness had a profound impact
on
the superintendent and the asylum” –
Becoming Ayden.
Production of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
(1 videodisc (40 min.))
Originally broadcast as segment of the television program “The Fifth
Estate.” Host: Hanna Gartner.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 34029623, which notes, in part,
that “[s]eventeen-year-old
Adina Scheim from
boy named Ayden.” Program about gender identity and
sex reassignment.
Beefcake.
Directed by Thom
Fitzgerald, 1999.
(1 videocassette; 93
min.)
Combination
of fiction and documentary. Bob Mizer of
Athletic
Model
Guild. Cast includes Daniel MacIvor.
Being at Home with
Claude.
Directed by Jean
Beaudin, 1992.
(1 videocassette; 90
min.)
Based
on the René-Daniel Dubois French-language play of same
title; in French; available also with English
subtitles.
Hustler and
murder in
Being Gay: Male Homosexuality.
Earl Reidy.
Hamilton, Ont.:
Health Sciences, 1982. (1 videocassette, ¾ in.; 45 min.)
This older item not included in Homosexuality in Canada, 2nd ed. (1984).
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue entry no. 11388871, in which the summary
states that “a small group of male homosexuals discuss their experiences,
attitudes, feelings and social pressures.” Target audience is given as
follows: “Medical; Allied Health: general.”
Better Than
Chocolate.
Produced by Sharon McGowan.
Directed by Anne Wheeler. Screenplay by
Peggy Thompson. 1999.
(Videocassette or DVD; 98 min.)
Story of
lesbian love. Winner of audience awards
at the
See
commentaries by Karen X. Tulchinsky, “Making (Better Than)
Chocolate,” Herizons 13(4) (March 2000): 22-23, 29
and
Leah
McLaren, “In Person: Laughing on the Outside,” Globe and
Mail,
August 12, 1999, n.p. (full text through CPI.Q electronic index
as of
November 10, 2000).
bill bissett.
Maureen Judge; Heart of the Poet,
episode 10.
Ref.:
Seminal (the anthology listed in Literature – Poetry section), p. 332
The
Directed by Elizabeth G.
Schroder; distributed by V-Tape, 1987.
(Videocassette; 22 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed Jan. 2,
2003.
Comedy
“where girl meets girl, still likes boy, and all hell breaks
loose.”
Black Men and Me.
By Michèle Clarke.
(1 videodisc (6 min.))
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 34079290, which notes:
“…explores her position as a Trinidadian dyke, and her complex
relationship with black men. Shot in a barbershop, a traditional gathering
place for black men….” Reflects on her masculinity while having head
shaved. One of AMICUS descriptors is Trinidadians –
Bodies in Trouble (Corps trouble).
By Marusia Bociurkiw. 1991.
(Videocassette; 15 min.)
Relevance
to this list uncertain. Included because
of author’s other work.
Woman is
searched as she tries to cross border.
Feelings/questions about
her body.
Review by
Patricia Seaman, Fuse Magazine 15(3) (Winter 1992): 37-38.
Body of Dissent:
Lesbian and Gay Mennonites and Brethren Continue the Journey.
Produced by Bridge Video
Productions,
(1 videocassette; 40
min.)
Popcorn
Q at www.planetout.com identifies this as a Canadian
film of interviews examining struggles of gay and lesbian Mennonites and
including also some historical background on the church.
Bolo, Bolo: Talking about Silence, AIDS & Gay Sexuality.
Produced by Gita Saxena and Ian
Rashid. Directed and edited by Gita
Saxena.
[S.l.]:
(1 videocassette; 30 min.)
“This
videotape is the first part of a larger project dealing with the HIV
concerns
affecting different areas of the South Asian community” –
Introductory
frame.
“Individuals
of the South Asian, and particularly Indian, community in
background. Includes comments of Sunil Gupta,
photographer; Himani
Bannerji,
writer and professor; and Ian Rashid, activist writer” –
Toronto
Public Library catalogue note.
Borders across the
Heart: Lesbians and Gay Men Struggle to Change
Immigration Laws.
Director, Melanie
Groves; producer, Katrina Jensen; writers, Melanie
Groves, Katrina Jensen, Pamela Millar. [Victoria, BC]: Mukup Films,
c1998.
(1 videocassette; 28
min.)
Ref. from Greater Victoria Public Library catalogue, in which record
summary field states that the video “profiles lesbians and
gay men challenging Canadian immigration law for the right to
live with their foreign partners in
See also reference in OCLC catalog, accession no. 42647959.
The
Boys of
Directed by John N. Smith; produced by Claudio Luca et al.
(2 videocassettes; ca. 184 min.; NFB
nos. 9192 107 and 9192 108)
Part 1 is dramatization of experiences of sexual and physical abuse of boys
by
Roman Catholic priests at a
years
later the
Available
also in French under title: Les Garçons de Saint-Vincent.
Brain Candy.
SEE Kids in the Hall:
Brain Candy.
Breakfast with Scot.
Filmmaker: Laurie Lynd. Actors: Tom Cavanaugh, Ben Shenkman, Noah Bernett.
“…first gay-themed film ever to receive the endorsement of a
major-league sports franchise, namely the Toronto Maple Leafs….
[The film] is about a very straight gay couple – Sam, an ex-Maple Leaf,
and Ed, the team’s lawyer – whose lifestyle and relationship are turned
upside down when they become the guardians of Scot, a budding queen of
an 11-year-old boy….” (from catalogue of 17th Annual Toronto Lesbian
and Gay Film
Festival,
Note that the catalogue lists this as an upcoming film from which “sneak
peeks” are to be shown at the festival.
Based on Michael Downing novel, Breakfast with Scot.
This presentation is to include screening of two of Lynd’s award-winning
shorts, The Fairy Who Didn’t Want to Be a Fairy Anymore and RSVP.
The Broadcast Tapes
of Dr. Peter.
Directed by David Paperny; distributed by
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
(Videocassette; 50 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com, accessed January 3, 2003.
“Deeply moving compression of TV programs recorded by an articulate
doctor dying of AIDS.” Nominated for 1994 Academy Award for best
documentary.
Bubbles Galore.
Produced and distributed
by Greg Klymkiw, 1996
(16mm film; 94 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed Dec. 30, 2002.
Byron Chief-Moon: Grey Horse Rider.
By Marlene
Millar and Philip Szporer.
(Video, 48 min.)
Documentary of “multi-talented Byron Chief-Moon [who] is one of the
most captivating First Nations artists working today….The documentary
also explores his identity as a First Nations two-spirited gay man and a
father of three adopted children….[E]ngaging portrait of a national icon.”
(from catalogue of 17th Annual Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video
Festival, May 17 to 27, 2007, p. 32)
C-38 : The Search for Marriage.
[Producer: Eric Spoeth; Jerome Spoeth]. [
(1 videodisc (77 min.).
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33286582, which provides a contents
note. The favorable comments unearthed on the Internet could not be
confirmed as coming from unbiased sources. User is advised to
investigate further.
The Canadian Closet.
(1 videocassette; 21 min.; Publisher no. 859-31-1206)
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue no. 28233681, which enters this work also
under heading CTV Television Network and assigns descriptors
Gay teenagers –
AMICUS record notes that although gay culture has “unprecedented
profile in
especially for teens in places where traditional attitudes dominate.”
Film introduces both those afraid to come out and those who have decided
to do so.
Caring
for Gay and Lesbian Patients: Excerpts from a Workshop on Human
Sexuality.
Produced by Allan D. Peterkin in collaboration with the Canadian
Psychiatric Association.
Association, 1998. (1 videocassette; 39 min.)
“Portraits of four people…[who] discuss growing up homosexual, coming
out, personal relationships…and their views of being homosexual in
society at large….Accompanying guide is to help health care professionals
understand and facilitate the needs of gay, lesbian and bisexual patients” –
AMICUS catalogue record no. 25688521. See also AMICUS record
22467257, which presents the same title proper, different timing (45 min.),
and a different summary. Compiler has not verified that these two records
describe the same work.
CBC-TV News in Review: September 2003.
(1 videocassette; 14 min.)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 29278092: This
video comprises four
reports, totalling ca. 58 min., on unrelated subjects. Only one report
concerns the same-sex marriage debate. The AMICUS entry refers also to a
62-page resource guide accompanying the video.
Celebration
’90, Gay Games III & Cultural Festival closing ceremonies,
August 11, 1990,
Distributed by Wolfe Video, 1990.
(1 videocassette; 96 min.)
“Closing ceremonies of Gay Games III, featuring the awarding of the
Dr. Tom Waddell Trophy, the passing of the flag, and entertainment by
bands, choruses, and other entertainers” – OCLC WorldCat record
(accession no. 32068176)
Celebration
’90, Gay Games III & Cultural Festival opening ceremonies,
August 4, 1990,
Distributed by Wolfe Video, 1990.
(1 videocassette; 96 min.)
“Opening ceremonies of Gay Games III, featuring the parade of
athletes, volunteer award, torch run, and performances by choruses,
dancers, and entertainers” – OCLC WorldCat record (accession no.
32068095).
Chinese Characters.
Scripted and directed by Richard
Fung.
(1 videodisc; 21 min.)
Originally released in 1986.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 34393171, which notes:
“…examines the ambiguous relationship between gay Asian men and
white gay porn. Asian men discuss their sexual self images as influenced
by western erotica….”
Other titles given in AMICUS record are: Shi se xing ye and
Food and Sex Are Human Nature.
The Choirmaster.
Ref.: Steven Maynard, Canadian Historical Review 78(2)
(June 1997): 192, as presented in Canadian Woman Studies 20(2)
(Summer 2002): 103, footnote 9.
Apparently a
film about abuse of boys based on a
Church (
film The Boys of St. Vincent. Compiler has retrieved no further
information.
Choosing Children.
[S.l.]: Canadian Learning Co.;
Women’s Educational Media, Inc., 1985.
(1 videocassette; 45 min.)
“Children
and lesbian mothers of six families discuss the issues of
homophobia,
discrimination, adoption, co-parenting, donor insemination
and the
role of the biological father in a gay household” – Toronto Public
Library
catalogue note.
Class Queers.
Directed by Melissa Levin and Roxana Spicer; produced by Howard Fraiberg;
production: School House Productions in association with CBC Newsworld.
(1 videocassette (ca. 39 min.) and 1 resource guide)
Online CBC Educational Sales catalogue code ZZY-03-07
This was broadcast in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s television
series, “Rough Cuts” on April 29, 2003 and repeated at later dates.
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 30509431 notes, from the CBC
Web site, that “Class Queers tells the stories of three gay and lesbian kids
from
result
of…harrassment….[They] seek refuge in
classroom for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans youth. But a school for
queer kids can’t shield them from the homophobia that lies just outside
their classroom door. ”
Coconut/Cane and Cutlass
Directed by Michelle
Mohabeer.
(1 videocassette; 32 min.)
“An
atmospheric film about Indo-Caribbean lesbians in
colonial
forces which made them” – Toronto Public Library catalogue note.
Le Coeur découvert.
Directed by Jean-Yves Laforce;
script by Michel Tremblay.
(16mm. film; ca. 107 min.)
Original production in French; English title: The Heart Exposed.
The user will note that there is a Tremblay novel of the same title in the
LITERATURE – NOVELS section of the main volume of this
bibliography. Story of two men, one with a five-year-old son, who
hesitantly come together.
Comme
des parcomètres.
Réalisation : Robert Blais; recherche et scénario : Michel Dorais. [Montréal]:
Production audio-visuelle, Service des communications, C.S.S. Montréal
Métropolitain, 1984.
(1 videocassette (VHS); 45 min.)
Two young female and three young male prostitutes relate their
experiences.
Writer, producer, and director: Glen Wood.
“Members of the Gay and Lesbian Community of Regina are shown
working together to build their new community building that opened on
Broad Street on May 28, 1999. Includes many interviews regarding
27 years of organizational history and video clips of construction sites,
parties,
and performances” –from
Web site, “Saskatchewan Resources for Sexual Diversity,” accessed
July
8, 2004.
The Company of Strangers.
Produced by David Wilson. Directed by Cynthia Scott.
Canada, c1990.
(NFB no. 9190 013)
(1 videocassette; 101 min.)
This work is grouped with nine others under the
National Film Board of
Elsewhere in this section. Titles from the group that seem relevant to
this
bibliography receive individual
entries.
In The
Company of Strangers, eight women stranded in a farmhouse share
their
life stories with each other.
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Directed, written, and
produced by Jean-Marc Vallée. Québec,
c2005.
(1 DVD; 129 min.)
Commercially
and critically successful movie about a young gay
man
in a 1970s family. French; available
with English subtitles.
Cross-Sexing the
Narrative: Lesbian Subtext in Music Videos.
Produced by Marusia
Bociurkiw, 1992.
(black and white
videocassette; 90 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed Jan. 2,
2003.
“Invites
you to revel in the special pleasures of uncovering and
discovering
lesbian subtexts…in…music videos” of many
performers, including k.d. lang.
Cured.
Directed by Courtney T. Gillen. [
(22 min.)
Comedy about problem-solving pill called Gay Away.
Ref.: N. Richards communication announcing screening.
Danny in the Sky.
Directed by Denis Langlois; produced by Denis Langlois and Bertrand Lachance.
Montréal: Christal, p2002, c2001.
(1 videodisc; 88 min.; publisher no. 50133)
In French with English subtitles or optional English track.
Danny is the son of a gay dad and a fashion-model mom.
Looking for love, he becomes involved in fashion modelling, stripping,
dancing in a gay club, and pornography.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 31495994; Seminal poetry
anthology, p. 345
Dark Sun, Bright
Shade.
Written and directed by
KWOI; produced by Daniel Sekulich; participants: Alex
Pak, Joe Yuen, David
Chant.
(1 videocassette; 57
min.)
“Follows
the relationship between an exiled Tien An Men Square
dissident
and his illicit lover as Confucian ethics collide with
temptations
of Western complacency” – publisher’s catalog, as
quoted in OCLC reference. Some descriptors assigned in OCLC record:
“Gay men –
Ref.: OCLC catalog record, accession no. 41166446.
David Roche Talks to You about Love.
Directed by Jeremy Podeswa; distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution
Centre, 1985.
(16mm; 22 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com, accessed January 3, 2003.
The Decline of the American Empire.
Directed by Denys Arcand, 1986.
(1 videocassette; 101 min.)
Group of French Canadian academics, one of whom is gay, talk of
sex and mortality.
Degrassi Junior High. Rumor Has It.
Playing with Time, Inc.; Taylor Productions, Inc.; directed by Kit Hood; produced
by Linda
Schuyler, Kate Taylor, and Kit Hood. Boston: WGBH Boston Video,
1999, 1987.
(Videocassette;
ca. 30 min.)
Ref.: OCLC catalog record, accession no. 42799989, in which this episode
is combined with another to give a 60 min. video.
In the “Rumor Has It” episode of the Degrassi Junior High television
drama
series, set in
Avery is gay, and when Caitlin has disturbing dreams about her favorite
teacher, she questions her own sexuality.”
Originally broadcast as TV program in 1987.
Deliver Us from Evil.
Directed by Marc Paradis; distributed by Videographe, Inc., 1987.
(Videocassette; 9
min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com, accessed
December 30,
2002,
which describes this as “an early work from one of
most celebrated gay video makers.”
2
Seconds
SEE title listing in this section, filed by number, preceding the A’s.
Dirty Laundry.
By Richard Fung. 1996
(1 videocassette; ca. 30 min.)
The Displaced View.
Directed by
(16mm; 52 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed Jan. 2, 2003.
“The film is a celebration of self, not only as a Japanese Canadian,
but as woman, … lesbian, immigrant.” Onodera is a
third-generation Japanese-Canadian (Sansei).
Dogme 41: Lonely Child.
Filmmaker: Pascal Robitaille.
(Video, 50 min.) In French with English subtitles.
William shoots video journals as souvenirs. Feeling the end of his
relationship, he spends two days camping with his young lover and
filming the time (from catalogue of 17th Annual Toronto Lesbian and Gay
Film
and Video Festival,
Wave listings)
NOTE that the French-language AMICUS catalogue record
no. 33724231 records publication data as: Montréal: Vidéographe
distribution, 2005.
Drift.
Directed by Quentin Lee; distributed by Margin Films, 2000.
(1 videocassette or DVD; 86 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com
, accessed Dec. 30, 2002.
Eclipse.
By Jeremy Podeswa. 1995.
Relevance uncertain.
“The
lunar phenomenon as the backdrop for a constellation of ill-fated
relationships:
the characters step outside their normal sexual orbit with
the dim
hope of a deeper fulfillment” – André Mayer, Toronto Life,
May 2000, p. 36.
Egan vs Queen.
(1 videocassette; ca. 40 min.)
About James Egan (see index to this bibliography for several other
entries). Series: Supreme Court of Canada Hearings; 23636.
Case on appeal from the Federal Court of Appeal.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 18740548
Emporte-moi (Set Me Free)
Directed by Léa Pool; produced by Lorraine Richard, 1999.
(35 mm; 95 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed Dec. 30, 2002, which
points to the attraction between Hanna and Laura.
End of Second Class.
Produced and directed by Nancy
Nicol.
(1 videodisc; 89 min.)
Traces Canadian same-sex marriage debate up to passage of marriage
legislation on
Eric’s Video.
Produced by Gay Hawley; directed by Peg Campbell.
(1 videocassette; 25 min.)
This video is the “documentary component of the Too Close for
Comfort resource package. Eric and the cast of Too Close for
Comfort [for which title see below, at T, in this VIDEOS section]
create a
video to further explore the theme of discrimination” – AMICUS
catalogue record no. 23880341. Catalogue descriptors: Homophobia,
Discrimination, AIDS (Disease).
Escape to
Written and directed by Albert Nerenberg; produced by Shannon Brown.
(1 videodisc [DVD]; ca. 81 min.; Publisher nos. 153C 9105 179 and C9105 179)
Broader than scope of this list.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33201180, which notes this is
a documentary concerning
a new image of
and gay marriage. Story begins in 2003 and investigates subsequent
developments.
L’Escorte (The Escort)
Directed by Denis Langlois, 1996.
(1 videocassette; 92 min.)
Jean-Marc and Philippe, lovers with trouble in their relationship. Steve, an
escort.
Exotica.
Directed by Atom Egoyan, 1994.
(1 videocassette; 104 min.)
Subtle, complex stories and themes interwoven. One major thread
concerns Thomas, gay owner of a pet shop. Exotica received eight
Genie awards in 1994, including one for best picture. Critical
acclaim also at
Exposure.
Directed by Michelle
Mohabeer.
(1 videocassette; 8 min.)
“A brief film on minority lesbians” – Toronto Public Library catalogue
note.
Eye on the Guy: Alan B. Stone & the Age of Beefcake.
Presented by Amérimage-Spectra; producers, Lisa Cochrane, Pierre L Touchette,
Alain Simard; produced in association with CHUM Television; produced in
collaboration with CANAL D …[et al.];
directors, Philip Lewis, Jean-François
Monette;
writers, Ross Higgins, Philip Lewis, Jean-François Monette.
San Francisco, CA : Frameline, c2006.
(1 videodisc; 49 min.)
Ref. OCLC catalog record no. 182723537, the note in which mentions that
Alan B. Stone was an “astute businessman, quiet suburbanite, and master
of the homoerotic pin-up.” The note continues that the “film explores
[through Stone’s
life and work] the little-known world of
physique photography scene – a distinct gay subculture that emerged in the
50’s and 60’s….”
Faces: GLBT in
Produced, directed, and edited by
Thomas Donovan ; a City of
production.
(1 videocassette (17 min.))
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 30712706, which notes that this
was created for the 35th anniversary of Stonewall. Catalogue descriptors
applied include ones concerning history of gay communities, gay rights,
and the gay
liberation movement in
The Fairy Who Didn’t Want to Be a Fairy Anymore.
Directed by Laurie Lynd; distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution
Centre, 1992.
(16mm; 17 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com, accessed January 3, 2003.
“A mini-musical comedy about the pros and cons of wing removal.”
Father and Son.
Produced by Jennifer Torrance and
Svend-Erik Eriksen. Written, directed,
and
narrated by Colin Browne.
(NFB no. 9192 117)
(1 videocassette; 89 min.)
“Explores
the roles of father and son in Western patriarchal culture,
including a disclosure of homosexuality” – NFB
abstract.
This
work is grouped with nine others under the National Film Board of
elsewhere in this section. Titles from the group that seem relevant to
this
bibliography receive individual entries.
Féminin singulier.
Montréal:
Office de la radio-télédiffusion du Québec,
1975.
(1 videocassette, ¾ in.; ca. 27
min.)
Older item not included in earlier Homosexuality in Canada
bibliographies. AMICUS catalogue record no. 11503136 assigns
the
descriptor “Lesbianisme.”
Fiction and Other Truths: A Film about Jane
Rule.
Produced by Rina Fraticelli. Directed by Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman.
Great Jane Productions Ltd., with
the participation of Telefilm
Ontario Film Development Corporation,
in association with TVOntario.
(1 videocassette; 58 min.)
“A study
of the life and writings of author Jane Rule…” – Toronto Public
Library
catalogue note.
Fighting Chance.
Directed by Richard Fung; production, Trinity Square Video.
Toronto: V Tape, c1990.
(1
videocassette; 31 min.)
AMICUS catalogue record no. 24172061 assigns, among others,
the descriptors “Asians—Sexual behavior,” “AIDS (Disease),”
and
“Gays.”
Fire.
By Deepa Mehta.
Story of
two sisters-in-law who are romantically estranged from their
husbands in
in
Review: Herizons,
Spring 1998, pagination not known. Also
see Herizons
2(4)
(Dec. 1998-March 1999): 7.
Firewords, Louky Bersianik, Jovette Marchessault, Nicole Brossard.
Directed by Dorothy Todd Hénaut; produced by Barbara Janes.
(1 videocassette; 85 min.)
Included because these artists appear frequently in other sections
of the bibliography. Compiler does not know if there is discussion
of glbt matters in this film. See summary in AMICUS catalogue record
19012807.
The Five Senses.
Directed by Jeremy Podeswa, 2000.
(1 videocassette; 105 min.)
Gay housekeeper likes home of perfume designer and her gay-curious
husband.
Forbidden Love: The
Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives.
Produced by Margaret Pettigrew
and Ginny Stikeman. Directed by Aerlyn
Weissman and Lynne Fernie.
(NFB no. 9192 088)
(1 videocassette; 85 min.)
“Interviews
with 10 women who paint a portrait of lesbian sexuality and
survival
in
tabloid
headlines, book covers and dramatizations from lesbian pulp
novels” –
Toronto Public Library catalogue note.
Reviews:
Alice Wexler, American Historical Review 99(4) (1994): 1270-
1272; also in
Herizons 7(2) (Summer 1993): 41 and in C Magazine
36 (Winter
1993): 65-66.
This
work is grouped with nine others under the National Film Board of
elsewhere in this section. Titles from the group that seem relevant to
this
bibliography receive individual entries.
Fresh Talk, Youth & Sexuality Educate Your Attitude.
Produced & directed by Teresa Marshall and Craig Berggold.
(1 videocassette; 30 min.)
“Interviews
with 30 young people in
youth & sexuality. Lesbian and gay youth speak out” – OCLC
catalog
record (accession no. 34911739). Other
title: Educate your
attitude. Not seen. Would appear to be broader in scope than subject of
this bibliography.
Directed by Nickolaos Stagias; distributed by Gil Bardsley, 1995.
(16mm; 10 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com, accessed January 3, 2003.
“The story of a gay friendship between a Mexican drag queen” and
another.
The Gay & Lesbian Video Collection.
This set
“regroups titles produced over various years [and] consists
of nine
[actually ten] videos [which] may be used to facilitate discussion
about gay and lesbian life” – NFB abstract.
Of the ten
titles, eight seem directly relevant to this bibliography and are
listed
separately in the list, with fuller information at the individual entries.
The ten
titles are the following:
Lorri:
The Recovery Series
The
Company of Strangers
Toward
Intimacy [concerning disabilities, and not listed separately]
Sandra’s
Garden [concerning incest, and not listed separately]
A
Kind of Family
Forbidden
Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
Father
and Son
Long
Time Comin’
Out:
Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth
When
Shirley Met
The Gay Issue: The Challenge of the 90’s.
Produced by the Social Action Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of
(1 videocassette; ca. 48 min.)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record nos. 15419386 and 17909671. The
former record provides the following summary: “This documentary
explores the gay agenda utilizing interviews with former lesbians and
homosexuals, as well as with therapists, sociologists, lawyers, educators,
and theologians. It attempts to present the issues, and to encourage a
biblical and compassionate response from members of the Evangelical
Fellowship
of
Gay Marriage.
Hosted by Shirley Solomon; directed by Henry Pasila. Produced for the CTV
Television Network by Adderley Productions.
An episode of the “Shirley” television program.
Gay Pride and Prejudice.
Directed by Nancy Nicol. [Toronto?]: V-Tape, 1994.
(Videocassette; 63 min.)
Documentary of the circumstances of the defeat
of Bill 167 under
the Ontario
NDP government of Premier Bob Rae. This bill was
to provide
equality rights for lesbians and gays in
Review and
discussion: Randi Spires, Matriart: A Canadian Feminist
Art
Journal 5(4) (1995): 34-35.
Gay Spirit: A Documentary.
By Barbara Anderson and Brad Newcombe.
Vancouver, B.C.: Amazon Communications: Moving Images Distribution,
c1996.
(1
videocassette; 52 min.)
Summary from AMICUS catalogue record no. 20073989:
“Six courageous homosexuals, all followers of different religions, discuss
their struggle to embrace their
sexuality alongside their spirituality.”
Gender Currents.
Curated by Chloë Brushwood
Rose.
(1 DVD (65 min.) + 1 pamphlet)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33611806, which notes: “Examines
gender performance and transgression….” Works by ten artists, with name
and title details given in AMICUS record note. Descriptors applied to
this exhibition: Gender identity – Psychological aspects; Gender identity in
art.
Gender Line Extended.
Produced by GC Services’ Jewel Productions; director: W. G. Burnham.
Vancouver, B.C.: Jewel Productions, 2002.
(1 videocassette (60 min.))
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 32136840, which notes:
“Features 20 individuals representative of the diversity and fluidity
within the B.C. transgendered communities….”
Girl Inside.
Red Queen Productions ; in association with TVOntario; film by Maya
Gallus; produced by Justine Pimlott
and Maya Gallus.
McNabb Connolly, distributor, c2007.
(1 videodisc (70 min.))
“Following
female,…[the video]
highlights
glamorous 80-year-old grandmother….”
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 34036182.
Girls Kissing.
A B.K. Lee film; Pin Point
Productions. Vancouver, B.C.: Moving Images
Distribution,
c2003.
(1
videocassette (48 min.))
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 31109922, which notes that
“[t]his edgy documentary goes behind the scenes with porn stars, a
Penthouse photographer, ad execs, and purveyors of adult sex toys to
explore the ultimate fantasy of straight men everywhere watching two
women together. At times lighthearted, it also touches on serious
underlying questions….” The catalogue record applies among its
descriptors the headings Lesbians in mass media, Lesbianism, Bisexuals,
and Sexual orientation.
Gloriously Free.
Directed by Ed Sinclair; produced by Noemi Weis; Filmblanc production, in
association with OMNI Television. 2004.
“…first documentary to explore the world of gay immigration” –
www.cbc.ca/documentaries/glorious.html
(viewed
God’s Dominion, part III.
SEE entry at Shepherds
to the Flock.
GOM.
Directed by Kirby Hsu, 1994.
(Videocassette; 10 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com, accessed January 3, 2003.
“Spinning images parody the politics of desire between queer
Asian and white men.”
Got 2B There.
Directed by Jose Torrealba; distributed by Picture This! Entertainment, 1998.
(1 videocassette; 88 min.)
Canadian-made documentary looking at gay dance club circuit,
party lifestyle, AIDS, and drugs.
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed Dec. 30, 2002.
The
Directed by Thom Fitzgerald, 1997.
(1 videocassette; 91 min.)
Gay
man goes home to
deal with memories. Cast includes Ashley MacIsaac.
Harems.
Réalisateur/producteur, Marc Paradis. Montréal:
Vidéographe Inc., 1991.
(1 videocassette; 48 min.)
See AMICUS catalogue record no. 15413066 for summary,
which states, in part, that the video is “une histoire d’amour entre un
scénariste
et un gogo-boy.”
Hayseed.
Directed by Andrew Hayes and Joshua Levy, 1997.
(16mm film; 90 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed Dec. 30, 2002.
He Ain’t Heavy.
Playing with Time,
Inc. [S.l.]: McNabb and Connolly
Films, 1988.
(1 videocassette; 27
min.)
From
the Degrassi Junior High series. In this
episode Snake learns his
brother
is gay.
Hearing Diverse Voices, Seeking Common
Ground: A Program of Study on
Homosexuality and Homosexual Relationships. [By the] Anglican Church of
(1 videocassette; 95 min.)
“This 6-session study on homosexuality and homosexual
relationships is a part of a dialogue undertaken by the General
Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada to provide a basis
for future decision-making….The study guide [which is listed
elsewhere under RELIGION – ANGLICAN] provides instructions
for group discussion” – abstract as given in OCLC catalog record,
accession
no. 44740560.
Her Sweetness Lingers.
Produced and directed by
Shani Mootoo.
(1 videocassette; 12
min.)
Described
as “lesbian, experimental” film which gives “a glimpse at the
beginnings
of a romantic affair” – www.planetout.com website, Jan. 11,
2001.
Review:
Rungh 3(3) (1995): 28.
Hey, Happy!
Directed by Noam Gonick, 2001.
(35 mm; 75 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed Dec. 30, 2002, which
categorizes as sci-fi.
Homosexual Concerns.
Joyce
Askwith. Hamilton, Ont.:
1982.
(1 videocassette, ¾ in.; 31 min.)
This older item not included in earlier bibliography, Homosexuality
in
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 11388862, which states that “this tape
deals with the following questions discussed by a male and female gay:
What might gays expect in a relationship?; How do young people deal
with thinking they are gay?; How can gays handle hostility from
co-workers, family and friends; Should I tell my parents?; Are gay
stereotypes realistic?” Target audience given as “general.”
Les Homosexualités.
Réalisé par
François Labonté; présenté par Vision 4 pour le Réseau Inter-
Vision. Montréal:
Cablespec, 1984.
(1 videocassette; ca. 28 min.)
Ref.: AMICUS
catalogue record no. 18781544
Homosexuality and the Bible: A Lecture.
By Brent Hawkes; introduction by Bruce MacLeod; hosted by Mary McCandless.
(1 videocassette; 80 min.)
“A scholarly examination of what the Bible has to say about
homosexuality.” Gay-positive – from AMICUS catalogue no. 23119677.
House of Pain.
Directed and produced by Mike Hoolboom, 1995.
(16mm, black and white; 80 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed Dec. 30, 2002, which
describes this as a “wordless psychodrama.”
I Need a Man Like You.
Directed by Kalli Paakspuu and Daria Stermak; distributed by Women Make
Movies, 1986.
(16mm; 24 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed Jan. 2, 2003.
“A timely and playful lampooning of some of the most resistant
sex stereotypes around today…delivers a colorful and zany lineup
of
I Only
Read about Myself on Bathroom Walls: Mental Health of Lesbians and Gay
Men. Hamilton, Ont.:
(1 videocassette; 40 min.)
“A lecture given for the Department of Psychiatry of empirical research
on mental health issues of lesbians and gay men. The experiences of
individuals may place them at risk for some mental health problems.
Target audience: general” –from AMICUS catalogue no. 21104732.
I Will Not Think about Death Anymore.
Directed by Irene Buncel, 1993.
(16mm; 19 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed January 2, 2003.
“Experimental” film “introduces us to a Canadian Jewish lesbian
who has recently lost a friend to AIDS and cannot sleep because
she is obsessed with death.”
I Would Never Have Known: A Conversation with Peter Dunnigan.
Directed and produced by Mirha-Soleil Ross.
(1 videocassette; 25 min.)
“A
conversation with
male transsexual Peter Dunnigan. He speaks openly about
addiction, recovery, sexuality, and life as a gender outcast….” –
from videocassette container liner.
Illegal Acts.
Directed by Moze Mossanen, 1982.
(16mm; 21 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed January 3, 2003,
which gives subject as activism. “Visit to a
chicken processing plant is at the center of this disturbing film, a
clever comment on the gay struggle.”
In
Other Words.
(1 videocassette; ca. 27 min.) (NFB no. C9101 046)
Glbt teenagers talk about their reactions to homophobic language. How
language and attitudes are related. “Ages 13 and up” –Container.
In the Flesh.
Produced by Joe
MacDonald, Graydon McCrea. Directed by
Gordon
McLennan.
(NFB no. 9100 022)
(1 videocassette; ca. 47
min.)
Also
on 1 videodisc [DVD], c2006 (See AMICUS catalogue
record no. 34355803)
Introduces
four “very different” people who are transsexuals, to explore
“traditional
assumptions about gender and what happens when a person’s
inner
sense of identity conflicts with society’s expectations” – NFB
abstract.
Innocent.
Writer/director:
Simon Chung.
(1 DVD; 80 min.; ISBN 1893410986)
Set
in
with his gayness. Container notes official festival selection/award winner.
Interviews with My Next Girlfriend.
Directed by Cassandra Nicolaou, 2001.
(35mm; 13 min.)
Ref.
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
“Nine candidates, one position.” Starring Sonja Mills, Ann-Marie
MacDonald, Shoshana Sperling, Moynan King, Pamela Matthews,
Karen Robinson, Diane Flacks, Alisa Palmer and Cara Pifko.
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing.
Written and directed by
Patricia Rozema. 1987.
(81 min.)
J’ai quelque chose à vous dire --.
Producteurs,
Jacques Nadeau, Louise Viens; réalisatrice,
Lynn Phaneuf.
Emission
de Idéacom International en collaboration avec
la Société
Radio-Canada. Montréal: Nuance Bourdon Audiovisuel, 2000.
(1 videocassette; 23 min.)
The following are noted in AMICUS catalogue record no. 25389387:
Titre de l’étiquette: M’aimes-tu, même
homosexuel?
Produit
dans le cadre de la série télévisée “M’aimes-tu?”. Emission
réalisée
en 1995. “Nathalie, René, Danielle et
Bill, après avoir renié
durant
plusieurs années leur personnalité pour satisfaire aux normes
hétérosexuelles,
ont un jour accepté leur condition, puis dévoilé autour
d’eux
leur attirance pour des personnes du même sexe.”
Jane Rule – Writing.
(1 videocassette; ca. 26
min.)
“Writer
and activist Jane Rule talks about her work, with analysis by
feminist
literary professor Marilyn Schuster” – liner from another NFB
film, School’s Out.
The Jane Show.
Directed by Moze Mossanen, 1992.
(Video; 10 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
“A
‘traditional’ broadcast production that features
queen/performance artist…[Sky] Gilbert in an interview with
herself.”
Jim Loves Jack: The James Egan Story.
[S.l.]: David Adkin Productions, 1995.
(53 min.)
“A portrait of James Egan [and John
Nesbitt].” Egan is “a pioneering
gay
activist in
See
also under Egan, Jim in BIOGRAPHY section for Egan’s
autobiography.
John and Michael.
Direction and animation, Shira Avni; producers, Shira Avni, Michael Fukushima.
(1 DVD or 1 videocassette; ca. 10 min.)
Issued also in French under title: John et Michael.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 32161022.
National Film Board of Canada give the following description at its
Web site (viewed
The film “pays homage to two men with Down’s syndrome who shared
an intimate and profoundly loving relationship that deeply affected the
filmmaker….Narrator Brian Davis, also intellectually challenged, brings
the men alive with great sensitivity.” The film, “by its artistry, rises above
society’s traditional ideas around disability, sexuality and death. When
the heart is touched, differences melt. Love is what defines humanity.”
John Greyson’s Shorts.
(1 videocassette; ca.
114 min.)
Eight
short films, including titles “Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers”
and “Four Safer Sex Shorts.”
Publication information is as given in
Johnny Greyeyes.
Directed by Jorge Manzano, 2000.
(35mm; 79 min.)
“Popcorn Q” at www.planetout.com web site says: “…Johnny, a
resilient and introspective Native-Canadian lesbian, comes to
terms with her recent release from prison….[S]he relives events
that led to her incarceration…[and] struggles with familial love
and obligation, romantic passion, and spiritual awareness….The
first feature-length film focusing on Native lesbians.” (site
examined
Julie and Me.
See Revoir Julie, in this section.
The Jungle Boy.
Written, directed, produced, and edited by John Greyson.
Participants: Colin Campbell, Kate Lushington, Robin Hardy,
Natasha
Grace Lushington Greenblatt. Toronto: V Tape, 1985.
(1
videocassette; 16 min.)
“While a TV journalist examines the contradictory homo-
eroticism and imperialism of a film version of Rudyard
Kipling’s Jungle book her husband confronts the politics of
fantasy and washroom sex. A pseudo-narrative whose disparate
threads unite in the final documentary sequence” – from container,
quoted in OCLC catalog record, accession no. 43601020.
Just for Fun.
Directed by David Oiye; distributed by Direct Cinema, 1993.
(16mm; 23 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
Subjects: youth, violence, homophobia. “A realistic story taking
place in a high school, depicting the power of peer pressure
prevalent among the perpetrators of gay-bashing, 80 percent of
whom are under the age of 18.”
NOTE: Compiler has not determined whether this and the following
entry
refer to the same or different works.
Just for Fun.
Produced by Whistle Productions.
With Monika Deol, Maurice Godin, and
Brian
Sweetapple. [
(1 videocassette; 24 min.)
“Confronts the
issue of gay bashing” – Toronto Public Library
catalogue note.
NOTE: Compiler has not determined whether this and the preceding
entry refer to the same
or different works.
Kanada.
Directed by Mike Hoolboom, 1993.
(16mm; 65 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
Key Canadian Documentaries.
Special ed.;
(3 videodiscs of a 4-DVD set; Publisher no. 2705 CFMDC)
One of the three works is relevant to this list. It is titled
“Hookers
on
AMICUS catalogue record no. 33832329 notes that “[t]hrough mutual
cooperation and support, the male, female, transvestite and transsexual
prostitutes of
of
Kids in the Hall.
Directed by John Mark Robinson; produced by B. Ruby Rich, 1993.
(Video; 100 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
Some PopcornQ subject designators: camp, transgender issues/
drag. Clip show; “‘Kids in the Hall’ are a young
team with a penchant for drag, genderbending, and some of the
most outrageous prohomo skits….”
Kids in the Hall. Brain Candy.
Directed by Kelly Makin. Paramount Pictures, 1996.
(1 videocassette; 89 min.)
Contains brief episodes in which Scott Thompson plays a closeted father
who comes out. See, during opening credits, approx. one minute between
ca. minutes 4 and 5 of the film and a further approx. eight minutes from ca.
minutes 36-40 (washroom raid scene) and minutes 43-47, with song, “I’m
Gay,” written and performed by Scott Thompson and Joe Sealy.
Characters in drag, passim.
A Kind of Family.
Produced by Joe MacDonald.
Directed by Andrew Koster.
Narrator: Glen
(1 videocassette; ca. 60 min.)
“True story of
the relationship between a man and a boy…Glen Murray is
a young, gay [
his foster
son, is a 17-year-old street kid. Their
relationship is always
tenuous and always turbulent as they struggle
to define themselves and live
together in harmony” – Toronto Public Library
catalogue summary.
This
work is grouped with nine others under the National Film Board of
elsewhere in this section. Titles from the
group that seem relevant to this
bibliography receive individual entries.
Reviews: Patrick Lowe, Border Crossings 11(3) (Summer 1992):
36-37 and
T.E. Vadney, Canadian Dimension 26(5) (July/Aug. 1992): 38.
Kipling Meets the Cowboy.
Directed by John Greyson; distributed by Video Data Bank, 1985.
(Videocassette; 22 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed Dec. 30, 2002.
“Gently tosses cowboy porn and the Western classic
into a tale of Rudyard Kipling’s escapades on the lecture circuit.”
Kiss My Cleats.
Directed by Beth Pielert, 1999.
(Video; 15 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
“Competitive sports, coming out…high-energy, moving video
about why people…[from] all over the world support the
Gay Games.”
Kumbaya Music Festival.
Elvira
Kurt and John Greyson. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Network Q,
1994.
(1 videocassette; ca. 120 min.)
Contents: Kumbaya Music Festival (Toronto AIDS benefit) –
Sex
in
Kurt
– Queer
Patience / John Greyson.
Ref.:
OCLC catalog record, accession no. 33077122.
The Last Supper.
Directed by Cynthia Roberts; produced by Greg Klymkiw; co-produced by Hillar
Liitoja, [
(ca. 96 min.)
See also Liitoja’s play of same title, published 1995, listed in
LITERATURE – DRAMA section. Concerns man with AIDS who, with
assistance of his physician, ends his life in presence of his lover. Cast:
Ken McDougall as Chris, Jack Nicholsen as Val, Daniel MacIvor as Dr.
Parthens.
Leaving Metropolis.
Film
by Brad Fraser. Produced with the participation of Telefilm
(1 videocassette or DVD; 88 min.)
Based on Fraser’s hit published play, Poor Super Man, listed
in the LITERATURE—DRAMA section of this bibliography.
Filmed
in
Legal Memory.
Script by Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak.
Story of Leo
Mantha, a gay man who murdered his lover and,
on
Steele and
Tomczak prepared the script from interviews conducted with
people who had
been involved with Mantha and researched the case in
libraries and
archives.
Review:
A Lesbian in the Pulpit.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Broadcast on “Man Alive” television
Series[?]. Released in the
(1 videocassette; 27 min.)
“Describes the
conflict in
gays and
lesbians and interviews lesbian minister Sally Boyle of
Program review
by Ruth Bainbridge, Canadian Materials 19(1)
(January
1991): 57-58.
By Shawna Dempsey and Lorri
Millan.
Productions: Video Pool, c2002.
(1 videocassette; 23 min.)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 28238256, which provides a brief note
regarding
Lesbian Women: Female Homosexuality.
Earl Reidy. Hamilton, Ont.:
1982.
(1 videocassette, ¾ in.; 30 min.)
This older item not included in earlier bibliography, Homosexuality
in
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 11388870, in which summary
states that “a small group of female homosexuals discuss their
experiences, attitudes, feelings and social pressures.” Target audience
is given as follows: “Medical; Allied Health: general.”
Lilies.
Produced by Anna Stratton, Robin Cass, and Arnie
Gelbart. Directed by John
Greyson.
Screenplay and based on the play by Michel Marc Bouchard.
(1 videocassette; ca. 96 min.)
See Noreen
Golfman, “Flowers for Greyson’s Queer Cinema,”
Canadian
Forum 75 (854) (Nov. 1996): 27-28.
Lip Gloss.
Directed by Lois Siegel; produced by Lois Siegel Productions.
(1 videocassette; ca. 75 min.)
AMICUS catalogue record descriptors: transsexuals, transvestites,
gay men.
Listening for Something: Adrienne Rich and
Dionne Brand in Conversation.
Producer: Signe Johansson. Director: Dionne Brand.
(1 videocassette; ca. 56 min.)
Subject
broader than scope of this bibliography.
Dionne Brand, Canadian
lesbian-feminist
poet, and American poet, Rich, discuss a wide range of
topics and
read from their works. For about 10
minutes, from
approximately minutes 36 to 46 of the film, Brand speaks occasionally of
lesbian issues.
Little Sister’s vs Big Brother.
Directed by Aerlyn Weissman ; produced by Cari Green.
[S.l.] : Homeboys Productions, 2002.
(71 min.)
Concerns the long censorship struggle of Little Sister’s Book and Art
Emporium, a
Long Time Comin’.
Produced by Nicole Hubert.
Directed by Dionne Brand.
(1 videocassette; ca. 52 min.)
About Faith
Nolan, musician, and Grace Channer, painter, “two
African-Canadian
lesbian artists….Channer’s large evocative canvasses
relay her
world views, from discovering her sexuality to recovery
of her African
heritage. Nolan’s music speaks
passionately to Black
people’s daily
struggles and to a lesbian feminist vision” – Video container
liner.
This
work is grouped with nine others under the National Film Board of
elsewhere in this section. Titles from the group that seem relevant to
this
bibliography receive individual entries.
Review: Canadian Woman Studies 14(2) (Spring 1994): 125-126.
The Long Walk.
Produced by Alan Bibby et al.
Directed by Alan Bibby.
(1 videocassette; ca. 49 min.)
“Ken Ward was
the first Native Canadian to go public with his HIV
diagnosis….He
also takes his message into prisons, where the infection
rate among
Native inmates is 17 times the national average” –NFB
abstract.
Not
viewed. Direct relevance to subject of
this bibliography uncertain.
Looking for My Penis (The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn).
Produced by Richard Fung, 1990.
(Videocassette; 90 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com, accessed
“Takes the point of view of the gay Asian man searching for
sexual as well as racial validation”
Lorri: The Recovery Series.
Produced by John Taylor and Jennifer Torrance. Directed by Moira Simpson.
(1 videocassette; ca. 14 min.)
“Recovery from
alcoholism began when Lorri committed herself to the
psychiatric
ward of a hospital and started to learn how to accept her
lesbianism” –
NFB abstract.
This
work is grouped with nine others under the National Film Board of
elsewhere in this section. Titles from the
group that seem relevant to this
bibliography receive individual entries.
Lost and Delirious.
Directed by Léa Pool; screenwriter, Judith Thompson.
[S.l.]: Lions Gate Films, 2001.
(100 min.)
Based on Susan Swan’s The Wives of Bath, with 1963 setting updated
to
2001. See review in Maclean’s,
mentions two of Pool’s earlier works, Anne Trister (1985) and
Emporte-moi [English title: Set Me Free], which apparently have lesbian
story
lines.
Love and Human Remains.
Directed by Denys Arcand; screenplay by Brad Fraser, 1993.
(1 videocassette; 100 min.)
Based on Fraser’s play, Unidentified Human Remains and the
True Nature of Love, listed elsewhere in this bibliography.
NeWest
Press in
together in 1996 as no. 15 in their Prairie play series (ISBN
1896300049). About group of
Love Makes a Family: Gay Parents in the 90’s.
Produced by Remco Kobus, Marla Leech, and Dan Veltri.
(1 videorecording; ca. 19 min.)
Program content, c1991.
“Introduces three homosexual couples who are parenting either their
own biological children or those they have adopted. They reveal how
they have explained their family structure to their children, teachers,
family and friends; and how all have responded” – from National Library
of Canada AMICUS catalogue notes (AMICUS
record no. 29159701)
Ma Vie.
Directed by Denis Langlois; distributed by Cinema Libre, 1992.
(16mm; 21 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com, accessed
“Describes his protagonist’s life from 1968 to 2038.” Subjects:
biography, coming out. In the reference, language is given as
English.
The
Making of “Monsters.”
Director/script: John Greyson; producer, Laurie Lynd.
1991.
(16
mm. film; 35 min.)
AMICUS catalogue record no. 15411038 gives, in part, the following
summary: “On
teacher in
were charged with first degree murder, they were convicted only of
manslaughter, and were out of jail less than three years later. This
production satirizes the strategies of Brechtian musical theater to explore
the culture
of anti-gay violence in
Maman et Eve.
Written
and produced by Paul Carrière.
Humanities & Sciences, 2001.
(1 videocassette; 54 min.)
Originally produced by Médiatique Inc. and the National
Film
Board of
French; French with English subtitles.
English title: Mum’s the Word.
Container title,
as given in OCLC catalogue record: Mother and Eve,
Breaking the Silence.
“Four middle-age women speak about how they came to
redefine their sexual orientation. Their stories of coming to
terms
with their true sexuality in
Ref.: OCLC catalog record, accession no.
46956300.
Mambo Italiano.
Commercial movie release in 2003 by Samuel Goldwyn Films; film based on
Canadian play of same title listed in LITERATURE – DRAMA section of this
bibliography. See that entry for more information.
Memo from
[
(1 videocassette; 39 min.)
“The story of
raids of 1981
to the new challenges of the 90’s” – Toronto Public Library
catalogue note.
Review: Visual
Media [Toronto: Ontario Film Association] 5(3)
(Jan./Feb. 1993):
14.
Mum’s the Word.
See
Maman et Eve
My Addiction.
Directed by Sky Gilbert; distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution
Centre, 1993.
(16 mm; 60 min.)
Ref.
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
Dec. 30, 2002.
My Gentleman Friends.
By Moze Mossanen.
Film of three
gay men in their sixties.
Ref.: Katrina
Onstad, “Grey Gay Men Provide Colour to an Invisible
Era,” National Post,
My Left Breast.
Directed by and starring Gerry Rogers, 2000.
(57 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ
at www.planetout.com , accessed
which states that “lesbian and cancer survivor, Gerry Rogers, turns the
camera on herself to document the year following her mastectomy.”
My Summer Vacation.
Directed
by Sky Gilbert.
(1 videocassette; 90 min.)
See mention of
some other titles in Gilbert’s memoir, Ejaculations from the
Charm Factory, p. 197. Author says that Water Bearer Films recently
purchased some of his films and that they are available in video stores.
However, the
Water Bearer Films web site (as of
lists only My Summer Vacation. Reference has been encountered to three
other
titles: Fill ‘Em, My Addiction,
and I Am the
Camera, Dying. My Addiction is entered separately in this bibliography.
My Sweet Peony.
Directed by Karin Lee; distributed by Moving Images Distribution, 1994.
(16mm, b&w; 30 min.)
In Cantonese and English
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
“Portrays…Zamma, a Chinese-Canadian woman who works as a
guide….She is faced with three suitors: a white man and a white
woman who fetishize her Asian identity and an older Chinese-
Canadian lesbian with whom she gradually develops a friendship.”
Nana, George & Me.
Directed by Joe Balass, 1997.
(Videocassette; 48 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
Two Iraqi Jews, one a 73-year-old unconventional gay man.
In English and Arabic with English subtitles.
Nelligan.
Réalisateur,
Robert Favreau; productrice, Marie-Andrée Vinet.
Montréal: Office national du film du Canada = National Film Board of Canada,
1991.
(videos of various widths and 35 mm. film; ca. 104 min.)
Feature film listed in an Archives gaies du Québec online bibliography,
for which reason it has been included. Degree of relevance unknown.
AMICUS catalogue record no. 15415521
describes the film as “une
évocation brillante et sensible des
moments les plus déterminants de la vie
du
célèbre poète maudit québécois….”
Night Visions.
Director/script, Marusia
Bociurkiw.
(both videocassette and 16mm. film; 55 min.)
Racism and homophobia; see AMICUS catalogue record no. 15410988.
Night Zoo.
SEE Un zoo la nuit.
1919
SEE
title 1919 in this section, filed preceding the A’s
SEE
title in this section, filed preceding the A’s
No One Has the Right.
Presented by the Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute Drama/Dance Dept.,
Crime Unit, Metropolitan
Education, 1996.
(1 videocassette; 35 min.)
Container subtitle: Using drama to combat racism and homophobia.
Play was created by the students. Scarborough Board of Education has now
been absorbed into the Toronto Board of Education.
No Sad Songs.
By Cell Productions and the 1985 AIDS Committee of
(16 mm. film; 62 min.)
“A collage of
interviews and theatrical dramatizations on the effects
of AIDS on
note.
No Skin off My Ass.
Director/script/editor/producer: Bruce LaBruce.
(16 mm film; 73 min.)
AMICUS catalogue record no. 15418279 gives the following summary:
“This bittersweet homosexual remake of the 1960s film A Cold Day in the
Park features LaBruce as a hairdresser who picks up a young, baby-faced
skinhead
in the park.”
Not Like That: Diary of a Butch-A-Phobe.
Directed and produced by Maureen Bradley, 1994.
(Videocassette; 14 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
“Bradley examines the causes of her own internalized fear of
looking or acting butch.”
Now Playing.
Directed by David MacLean; distributed by V-Tape, 1988.
(Videocassette; 22 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
“Denizens of a former porno theater return to their old haunt to
reminisce.”
One Hundred Percent Woman.
SEE 100% Woman, above, preceding the “A” listings in this section.
One of Them.
Directed by Elise Swerhone; produced by Jennifer Torrance; written by
Nancy Trites Botkin.
(1 videocassette; ca. 25 min.) (NFB publisher no. C9199 229)
AMICUS catalogue record no. 24898924 gives the following
comment: “Freedom from bullying, name-calling and violence
motivates the high school seniors in this school-based drama,
with a focus on homophobia and discrimination.”
Open Secrets.
Directed and written by José Torrealba ; produced by Germaine
Ying Gee Wong. Montréal : National Film Board of Canada, c2003.
(1 videocassette (52 min.); NFB catalogue no. 143C 9103 082)
Concerns gays in the Canadian armed forces, including World War II
period.
AMICUS catalogue record no. 28702165
Orientations: Lesbian & Gay Asians.
Produced & directed by Richard Fung. Camera, production, John Greyson, Trinity
Square Video.
(1 videocassette; 56 min.)
“Videocassette
release of a film originally produced in 1984….A dozen
Canadian gay
men and women of different Asian backgrounds speak
frankly about
their lives as members of a minority within a minority….
This videotape
was produced in cooperation with Gay Asians Toronto” –
Out in the Garden.
By Vincent Grenier, 1991.
(Videocassette; 15 min.)
Ref.: OCLC catalog record, accession no. 30264669.
“Explores the struggle of a gay man who has recently been
told that he is HIV positive as he comes to terms with the news.”
According to various Internet sources, Grenier is originally from
Québec and
now teaches in the
Out: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth.
Directed by David Adkin.
(1 videocassette; 79 min.) (NFB no. 0193 052)
“Provides
awareness, understanding, and hope to gay and lesbian youths,
parents,
cousellors and educators. An exploration
of the struggles and
victories of Canadian gay and lesbian teens
dealing with the damaging
silences surrounding their sexual orientation”
– Toronto Public Library
catalogue note.
This
work is grouped with nine others under the National Film Board of
elsewhere in this section. Titles from the group that seem relevant to
this
bibliography receive individual entries.
OUTlet: Queer Youth Speak Out.
(1 videocassette)
Ref.:
Centre (online) bibliography, “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual…,” which
bibliography is fully cited in the Bibliographies section of this list.
From the STF bibliography summary: “Features candid stories
about the challenges of coming out…. [D]esigned to bring the issue of
homophobia into the classroom.”
Directed by Gérard Ciccoritti, 1993.
(1 videocassette; 111 min.)
Set
in
growing from arrival of a writer and former boxer.
Passion: A
Letter in 16mm.
Directed and produced by Patricia Rozema, 1985.
(16mm; 28 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
“A stylish, complex depiction of a woman’s one-sided,
unsatisfying love affair….”
The Perfect Son.
Directed by Leonard Farlinger, 2000.
(1 videocassette; 93 min.)
Two brothers, one gay and one straight. Starring Colm Feore,
David Cubitt, Chandra West.
The Pink Pimpernel.
By John Greyson.
(1 videocassette; 32 min.)
“Members of
the gay community in
the
government’s actions or lack….A parallel tale of the fictional gay
activist, the
Pink Pimpernel, punctuates the discussion…” – University
of California
MELVYL catalog note.
PMS (Positioning My Sexuality).
Directed by Vince Colyer, 1992.
(16mm; 12 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
“Droll and creative catalog of role models available for gay men.”
Politics of the Heart.
Director/producer:
Nancy Nicol. Canada, 2006.
(1
videodisc, 67 min.)
French-language version issued as: La
politique du coeur.
“…is a moving portrait of lesbian and gay families who reshaped the
cultural and political landscape of Québec by fighting for recognition of
their relationships, families and homoparental rights….The film pays
particular attention to The Civil Union Bill (Bill 84)…in June 2002”
(from catalogue of 17th Annual Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video
Festival,
Porcaria.
Directed by Filipe Paulo; Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, 1995.
(16mm, b&w; 35 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
“A
salacious sex farce set in
finds herself competing with a young, gay lodger for the sexual
attention of her beefy, unemployed husband….”
Pouvoir intime.
Directed by Yves Simoneau; produced by Claude Bonin, 1986.
(35 mm; 87 min.; French)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
Pride and Prejudice.
Produced by
(
(1 videocassette; 24 min.)
About and
featuring gay and lesbian youth.
Review: Bob
Tremble, Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 2(1)
(1993): p.
SIECCAN 22-23.
Prisoners of Violence: Domestic Violence against Same-sex Partners.
Written by Khadija Kathy Ali; producers: Kevin Shea, Khadija Kathy Ali;
Cogeco 23 TV Station production in partnership with Women Survivors Advisory
Group (WSAG) and the Halton Regional Police Service.
(1 videocassette; 30 min.; NFB publisher no. 113C 0103 270)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue
no. 31496703
Prom Fight: The
Marc Hall Story.
Directed by Larry
Peloso.
[S.l.: s.n.], 2002.
“Shot on
location in
the drama,
rife with comedy, tells the story of gay teen Marc Hall who made
headlines in
Spring 2002 when he defied his Catholic school board and brought
his
boyfriend to the prom….[This] struggle resulted in headlines…around the
world….” –
from www.movietome.com Web site,
Proud Lives: Chris Bearchell,
Filmmaker:
Nancy Nicol.
(Video, 15 min.)
Portrait of “a towering
figure in the history of gay liberation in
(from catalogue of 17th Annual Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video
Festival,
Quand l’amour est gai.
Produced by Eric Michel. Directed by Laurent Gagliardi.
Montréal: Office national du film du Canada,
c1994. (NFB no. 0294 034)
(1 videocassette; ca. 49 min.)
Issued also in
English under title: When Love Is Gay,
listed elsewhere
in this
section. Explores gay men’s
relationships, from longstanding,
monogamous to
brief encounters. Men of all ages talk
openly about
their gayness,
difficulty of acceptance in a straight, often homophobic
society. Intimate interviews. – Information from
liner.
Quand tombe la nuit.
SEE entry at When Night Is Falling, in this section.
Produced,
directed and edited by David Geiss.
Ref.:
this
is a 45-minute video documentary on the world of
queens.
Queer across
Directed by Maureen Bradley; distributed by V-Tape, 1993.
(Videocassette; 10 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
Bradley’s “punchy cross-country dictionary of sexual identities.”
Queer & Now.
Producers, Christina Teixeira, Darby Wheeler; series producer, Paul Templeman.
Toronto: CHUM Television, c2004.
(1 videocassette; ca. 50 min.)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 32672326, which notes that this
Cable in the Classroom project, hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos
and Hannah Sung, “explores gay culture and how it relates to music and
musicians. Interviews with David Bowie, Ron Halper, Rufus Wainwright
and others. Features bands such as the Hidden Cameras, and others.”
The Queer
Directed by Nacy Nicol, 2009.
(90 min.)
series on the history of lesbian and gay rights in Canada….” -
advertisement (Xtra! [Toronto], May 21, 2009, p. 41) for the 19th annual
“Inside Out” Toronto lgbt film and video festival.
Queer Youth.
Produced
by Halton Anti-Homophobia Committee [
About
queer youth in
Ministry of Health grant and shown in Halton schools.
Queercore (A Punk-u-mentary).
Directed by Scott Treleaven, 1996.
(Videocassette; 21 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed
“Rocks our sense of traditional ‘gayness’.” “Punkfaggotdyke style,
power,
and sexiness will conquer the earth in the near future!”
Raider in
Produced,
directed, and edited by Randy A. Riddle.
Cool
Cat Daddy Productions, 1998.
(1
videocassette; 89 min.)
“Shot
in and around
Ref.:
OCLC catalog record, accession no. 40708844, in which
descriptors
“Gay men –
“Cartoonists
–
Ready to Get Married.
Video
by Anand Ramayya.
Ref.:
24/09) notes: “This film by Gemini award winner
Anand Ramayya
followed
to have their relationship recognized….It was
part of a documentary series
‘The New Face of Multiculturalism’ produced in
2005 by the
Revoir Julie (Julie and Me)
Produced
and directed by Jeanne Crepeau, 1998.
(16mm;
91 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
R. S. V. P.
Written and directed by Laurie Lynd; director of photography, Miroslaw Baszak;
editor, Miume
Jan. In Boys’ Shorts: Six Short Films.
Frameline; distributed by Shocking Gray, 1994.
(1 videocassette; total running time 119 min.)
Note in OCLC catalog record gives R.S.V.P. as the one Canadian
entry in a “showcase of six of the finest short films produced in
the 1990’s with gay themes,” describing it as
“a powerful portrait
of
loss punctuated by the haunting voice of Jessye Norman.”
Rude.
Directed by Clément Virgo, 1995.
(1
videocassette; 90 min.)
Filmed
in neighbourhood of a
stories, the third of which concerns a boxer
confronted with his own
sexuality after participating in a gay assault.
Running Gay.
Sheffield Film Co-op; Channel Four
Television (UK); producer, Chrissie
Stansfield; director, Maya
Chowdhry. [S.l.]: Cinema Guild, 1991.
(1 videocassette; ca. 21 min.)
“Interviews
with gay and lesbian athletes participating in the
1990
Gay Games III in
record,
accession no. 28764342, abstract.
Saddest Boy in the World.
Filmmaker: Jamie Travis (
Brief descriptive
review: Xtra!,
Shane Smith quoted here about the film: “Timothy Higgins may be
the saddest boy in the world, and he may be preparing to hang himself
at his ninth birthday party, but…Travis injects…enough heart and humour
to ensure everything turns out (semi-) okay”.
Safety for You.
Produced by Louise Ford and Capital Region Centre for the Hearing
Impaired.
(1 videocassette; 23 min.)
“Addresses
violence in lesbian relationships as well as violence against
women with
disabilities” –NFB abstract.
Presented in American Sign
Language with English voiceover and
captions.
Salivation Army.
Directed
by Scott Treleaven, 2001.
(Videocassette;
22 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
“…for
three years the Salivation Army operated a counterculture
zine
aimed at restless queer punk youth. But
during their brief
existence…transformed
into an increasingly dangerous cult
network.
Part confessional, part recruitment drive….”
Salut Victor!
Réalisatrice,
Anne Claire Poirier; productrice, Monique Létourneau.
Montréal: Office national du film du Canada = National Film Board of
(videos of various widths and 16 mm. film; ca. 84 min.)
AMICUS catalogue record no. 15376147 states that this work is
“adapté de la nouvelle ‘Matthew and Chauncy’
de…Edward O. Phillips
[et]
raconte l’histoire de la touchante amitié entre deux résidents d’un
foyer pour personnes âgées….” About aging and homosexuality.
Scars.
Directed
by Lorna Boschman, 1987.
(Videocassette;
11 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
Documentary;
“exploration of self-scarring.”
School Fag.
By Richard Fung, with Tim McCaskell. 1998.
(1 videocassette; ca. 17 min.[?])
School’s Out.
Great Jane Productions, featuring Teens Educating and Confronting
Homophobia
(TEACH), with Jane Rule. Directed
by Lynne Fernie.
Board of
(1 videocassette; ca. 25 min.)
Discussion of
gay teenagers’ experiences, homophobia, attempts to provide
education and
support in schools.
Screamers.
Directed
by Paula Fairfield; Pandora Pictures, 1994.
(16mm;
30 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
“A
film about screaming: wanting to scream, not wanting to
scream,
wanting to be heard….”
Secret Self: The
“Man Alive” television series
program aired
Note also the book by Cormier listed in the Biography section of the
Gay Canada bibliography.
Seducing Maarya.
Directed
by Hunt Hoe, 1999.
(1
videocassette; 107 min.)
Zakir,
an East Indian in
Secretly
visits lover, Michael.
Self Defense.
Directed
by Paul Donovan; produced by Michael Donovan, 1983.
(35
mm; 90 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
describes this as “one of the most
controversial gay-related movies ever
made,…criticized for its excessive
violence.” Set in
Set Me Free.
See
Emporte-moi, in this section.
Sex of the Stars.
See
Le Sexe des étoiles.
Le Sexe des étoiles.
Directed by Paule Baillargeon, 1993.
(1
videocassette; 100 min.)
Relationship
of girl with father, who returns as transsexual.
French
with English subtitles. English title: Sex
of the Stars.
She Thrills Me.
Directed
by Maureen Bradley; Video Out, 1993.
(Videocassette;
15 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
“Women
talk about sex – what they want, what they like, what
they
do.”
Shepherds to the Flock.
(1 videocassette; ca. 51 min.)
This is Part
III of video set titled: God’s Dominion.
Concerns the
United Church of Canada and gays.
She’s a Boy I Knew.
A film by Gwen Howarth; directed and edited by Gwen Howarth.
Distribution,
c2007.
(1
videodisc (70 min.)).
“Autobiography.”
“…documents her male-to-female gender transition partially through the
voices of her anxious but loving family, best friend, and wife….”
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 34045296
Should
Gay Families Be Legalized?
Directed by Michael Hooey; produced by Les Kottler; hosted by Shirley Solomon.
Toronto: CTV Television Network, 1990.
(1
videocassette; 48 min.)
Episode of the “Shirley” television program.
Should
Gays Be Allowed to Adopt Children?
Hosted by Shirley Solomon.
Episode of “Shirley” television program.
Produced for CTV Television Network.
Oakville, Ont.:
Magic Lantern
Communications, 1994.
(1 videocassette; 48 min.)
Siege.
This appears to be an alternative
title for Self Defense, directed by Paul Donovan
and listed elsewhere in this
bibliography.
Silver Lining: The Brian Orser Story.
(ca. 60 min.)
Aired on “Life
& Times,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
Interviews
with and biography of Orser, Olympic silver medallist (1984
and 1988) in figure skating.
Skin Deep.
Directed by
(NFB no. 0195 007)
(Videocassette; ca. 81 min.)
Skin
Deep. Episode 31, Susan.
(1 videocassette (ca. 23 min.))
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 29900245, which notes that
“Susan, a 48 year old transsexual, discusses the issues raised by her
transsexuality, and her efforts to bring her body into congruence with
what is going on in her mind….”
Reference also in TRANSBIBLIO online bibliography, accessed through
UIUC
LGBT online bibliography on
Skin Flick.
Directed
by Bruce LaBruce, 1999.
(35mm;
70 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
Solo.
Directed
by Atif Siddiqi.
(54
min.; NFB order no. C9103008)
“[C]elebrates
one gay man’s creative journey to self-realization –
with
or without Mr. Perfect” (from liner notes)
Sortie 234.
Directed
by Michel Langlois; ACPAV, 1988.
(16mm;
26 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
In
French; “the rabid passion of Renaud for Frank.” Lucille,
Frank’s
love, “becomes the go-between in this pulsating
relationship.”
Sparky’s Shoes.
Directed
by Glen
(16mm;
16 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
“Explores
the boundaries of love, loss, and redemption in the age
of AIDS.”
Stand Together.
Produced
and directed by Nancy Nicol. Toronto: V Tape, 2002.
(1
videocassette; 124 min.)
History of
Stardom.
Directed
by Denys Arcand, 2000.
(1
videocassette; 103 min.)
Many gay and lesbian characters.
Steam Clean.
By Richard Fung. S.l.: s.n., 1990.
(1
videocassette; 3 min.)
“A safe sex tape for Asian gay communities” – as cited in Thomas
Waugh, “Good Clean Fung,” Wide Angle 20(2) (1998): 175. Waugh,
in this article, states that he wishes “to reclaim Steam Clean as the key
to his [Fung’s] oeuvre and
its full range of issues….”
Sticks & Stones.
Directed
and written by Jan Padgett; produced by George Johnson.
(1
videocassette; 17 min.)
“In
the broadest sense,…looks at name calling in schools, but its
much
narrower focus is on those children whose parents are gay or
lesbian” – from review by Dave Jenkinson, CM
8(9)(
electronic version, unpaged.
Still Sane.
Directed
by Brenda Ingratta and Lidia Patriasz, 1985.
(Videocassette; 60 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com ,
accessed Dec. 30, 2002,
which states that this documentary is “the
extremely moving story behind
an exhibition of sculptures that reflect the
experiences of a lesbian
artist….She
has been in and out of mental institutions for three years for
being a lesbian….”
Stolen Moments.
Produced by Silva Basmajian et al.
Directed by Margaret Wescott.
Narrated by
Kate Nelligan.
(NFB no. 0197 064)
(1 videocassette; ca. 92 min.)
“Voyage
through three centuries of gay life…from the unique lesbian
cultures of
American meccas of
– NFB abstract.
Lesbian
history. Among those giving insights is
Canadian writer, Nicole
Moments: Memories of an Existence Underground,” Take One 6(18)
(Winter 1998): 15-17 (full text online through CBCA Fulltext
Reference
index as of
Lesbian History,” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],
C2.
Straight for the Heart.
SEE À corps perdu.
Strangers in Good Company.
Directed
by Cynthia Scott, 1990.
(35
mm; 101 min.)
This
is the
elsewhere
in this bibliography.
Ref.: PopcornQ
at www.planetout.com , accessed
states that this is a film about eight elderly women stranded together in the
Mont Tremblant
region of
lesbian artist,
and “a butch nun.”
Street Kids.
Produced by John Taylor and Jennifer Torrance. Directed by Peg Campbell.
(1 videocassette; ca. 22 min.)
“A gritty,
realistic look at juvenile prostitution and the young people,
male and
female, who are struggling to get off the streets” – NFB abstract.
Stubblejumper.
Directed by David Geiss.
Regina, Sask.: da vid films,
2008.
(48 min.)
Biographical docudrama about 1970’s
Saskatchewan gay activist,
Doug Wilson (see additional items about him
elsewhere in this list).
Sugar.
Co-written by John
Palmer and Todd Klinck.
Adapted
from Bruce LaBruce’s JD stories. “Sugar,
about the relationship
between
18-year-old suburban kid Cliff and young street hustler Butch,
won
the best feature award at last month’s ‘Inside Out Toronto Lesbian
and
Gay Film and Video Festival’” – from “Sex-trade Experience Helps
Bring
Film to Life,” Globe and Mail,
Super 8 ½
Directed
by Bruce LaBruce, 1994.
(16mm,
black and white; 85 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
describes this as “mixing thinly-disguised
autobiography with hardcore sex
scenes.”
PopcornQ also mentions his Hustler White (1995), set in Los
Angeles and not listed separately in this
bibliography.
Surely to God.
Directed
by Margaret Moores; distributed by V-Tape, 1989.
(Videocassette;
25 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
Lesbian/comedy;
“Two women try to cash in a lottery ticket stuck
to a frozen chicken.”
Symposium.
By Nick Sheehan, 1995.
Reflections on gay love.
Ref.:
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives website.
Taking Charge.
Produced by Chantal Bowen, Studio D, and Regards
de femmes, in collaboration
with the Federal
Women’s Film Program. Directed by
Claudette Jaiko.
National Film Board of Canada, c1996.
(1 videocassette; ca. 26 min.)
Broader than scope
of this bibliography, but includes discussion of
homophobia. “Teenagers address issues of violence against
women,
racism and homophobia” – from liner of NFB
video School’s Out.
Talk to
Me.
Susanne
Tabata. Vancouver, BC: Tabata Production
Associates, 1995.
(1
videocassette)
Ref.: Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation, Stewart Resources
Centre (online) bibliography, “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual…,” which
bibliography is fully cited in the Bibliographies section of this list.
Descriptors accompanying the STF bibliographic entry
indicate video subject scope is broader than scope of this list, but
descriptors Sex
differences – Social aspects and Homophobia –
have been applied.
Tampon Thieves.
Director/producer: Jorge
Lozano.
(1 videocassette; 22
min.)
“Weaves
reflections on family with love between friends to
tell
a rich story of how women and gay men of color are treated
in
a racist, homophobic culture.”
Ref.:
OCLC catalog record, accession no. 42363736, which
applies
descriptors “Gays –
and
“Homophobia –
Tearing the Veil.
Directed by Ronit
Bezalel; Women Make Movies, 1989.
(Videocassette; 10 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com
, accessed
“The
eternal question, ‘What is a Lesbian?’, asked in terms of
gender
stereotypes.”
Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax).
Directed by
(16mm; 30 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com
, accessed
Three scenes: lesbian and straight woman discuss planned sexual
encounter; two men meet in washroom stall; phone sex between
man and woman.
Thank God I’m a Lesbian.
Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona.
Distribution Centre, 1991.
(1 videocassette; 55 min.)
“
outing, etc.”
– Toronto Public Library catalogue note.
These Shoes Weren’t Made for Walking.
Directed and produced by Paul Lee, 1995.
(16mm; 27 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
Lesbian experimental film; “docudrama exploring the roles and
aspirations of four generations of Chinese women in the director’s
family.”
Thinking Positive.
Produced by Marilyn A. Belec et al.
Directed by Debbie McGee.
(1 videocassette; ca. 23 min.)
Broader than
scope of this bibliography. Rural and
small-town teens
talk about
sexual behavior, often thinking that HIV/AIDS is a
disease of big
cities.
Those Lesbian Girls Are Really Talented.
Produced by Marian Lydbrooke as part of Maclean-Hunter/Cable Ten’s
SHE/TV Collective,
(Documentary film of unknown format; 25 min.)
Ref.: Mona
Oikawa et al., eds. Out Rage, p.
280, which mentions that
it is
“recent.”
Together and Apart.
Directed by Laurie Lynd,
1986.
(Videocassette; 26 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
“Avant-garde
gay musical about two former college room[m]ates
and
lovers who meet again some years later….”
Directed by Kathy
Garneau, 1994.
(35 mm; 94 min.)
Ref.: PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
the lesbian relationship of Kate and Shelly as a major aspect of the
work.
Too Close for Comfort.
Directed by Peggy Campbell.
Produced/Co-written by Gay Hawley.
High-school
basketball star tests positive for HIV and information passed
to his schoolmates. Issue of homophobia. Reviews: Teacher [BC
Teachers’
Federation] 3(6) (Apr./May 1991): 9, and Globe and Mail,
p. C5.
Too Outrageous.
Directed by Richard
Benner, 1987.
(1 videocassette; 110
min.)
Sequel
to Outrageous. Cast includes
Craig Russell.
Touch.
Written and directed by
Jeremy Podeswa; produced by da da kamera, 2001.
(ca. 30 min.)
Abused young man turns to prostitution in search of the older man with
whose violence he has come to associate love. Shown on CBC’s “Canadian
Reflections,”
Touch of Pink.
Film by Ian Iqbal
Rashid, [2004].
Review
by Kamal Al-Solaylee, “A Touch Too Pink?”,
Globe and Mail,
Gay-themed
South Asian comedy. “Follows the coming-out journey of
of
Alim, an Ismaili Muslim Canadian who works as a film-set
photographer
in
Transgender / Transsexual – Theorizing, Organizing, Cultural Production.
(6 videocassettes)
Videotape of symposium sponsored by the Graduate Programme in
Women’s Studies and The Division of Social Science (Arts); held at
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record numbers 29902752 through 29902757
(separate records for each of tapes 1-6). The six catalogue records provide
additional contents information and names of some participants.
Tape lengths range from 37 minutes to 85 minutes.
A Transsexual Journey: Katherine Elizabeth Cohen. Behzad
Sedghi Productions.
(1 videocassette; 44 min.)
Interview of
transsexual Cohen.
Transsexual
Voyage.
Produced by Nicole Tremblay; hosted by Brian Stewart.
(1 videocassette; 43 min.)
Four transsexuals tell their stories, including the reason for their coming
to a premier
no. 25690657 states that title on cassette is Transexual journey.
Les Transsexuels et l’État civil.
Réalisateur,
Alain d’Aix. Montréal: InformAction
Films Inc., 1980.
(16 mm. film; 28 min.)
True Inversions.
Director:
Lorna Boschman; producers/script: Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard
Jones,
Susan Stewart.
(videos of various widths; 29 min.)
“A challenge to both state censorship and orthodoxies within the lesbian
communities about sex on screen” – AMICUS catalogue record no.
15412650.
The Truth about
Alex.
Directed by Paul
Shapiro, 1987.
(Videocassette; 48 min.)
Ref.:
PopcornQ at www.planetout.com , accessed
Brad
and Alex are best friends and popular high school students,
“but
their lives are turned upside down…when Alex admits that
he’s
gay.”
Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage.
Filmed by Linda Fraser and
[
(60 min.)
This film,
which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival
in October 1999,
is a documentary, filmed by the subjects, of “
first legally
recognized lesbian marriage.”
married
Georgina Scott, “a transgendered pulp mill worker,” in June 1997,
when Scott was
still legally a male, but after he already had been living as
a woman for
two years. About “the lives, emotions
and surgery of this
precedent-setting
couple” – from text of article as it appears in Expanded
Academic
ASAP electronic index.
Review: Kim Goldberg, “BC Lesbian Couple Tell It
Their Way,”
Canadian Dimension
33(6) (Dec. 1999): 5 (or 3?, as given in CPI.Q index;
598 words)
Two Brothers and
Two Others.
Two Brothers
directed by Richard Bell, 2000.
(1 videocassette; 85
min.)
Two brothers, one gay and one straight. Two Brothers (ca. 60
min.) is
accompanied on this video by two other short films by another director.
Compiler does not know if Two Brothers is available alone.
Two/Doh.
Directed by Michelle Mohabeer.
(1 videocassette; 5 min.)
“A short
erotic film celebrating lesbian pride” – Toronto Public Library
note.
2 Seconds.
SEE
2 Seconds [ i.e., Deux seconds], filed preceding the A’s, above in this
section.
Uncut.
By John Greyson.
Ref.: Take
One 6(19) (Spring 1998): 48. World
premiere at Inside Out:
The Lesbian & Gay Film + Video Festival,
Urinal.
Director/producer/script: John
Greyson.
(video, ¾ in., and 16 mm. film; 100 min.)
“A group of famous dead artists…summoned…to research the policing
of washroom
sex in
for the gay community…” – AMICUS catalogue record no. 15406699.
L’Usure (By Attrition)
Directed by Jeanne
Crepeau, 1986.
(16mm; 8 min.)
In
French; “closeness that once linked these two girls…worn thin
by
routine….[They] meet…to learn how to kiss again.”
Video against AIDS.
Curated by John Greyson and Bill Harrigan. Produced by Kate Horsfield.
Pt. 1.
PWA Power; Discrimination; AIDS and Women – Pt. 2. Resistance;
Mourning; Community Education – Pt. 3. Loss;
Analysis; Activism.
(3 videocassettes; 359 min.)
“Consists of
twenty-two independently produced works on aspects of
AIDS not
covered in the mainstream media” –
catalogue note.
Views on Sexual
Orientation: Excerpts from the General Synod Forum, 1992.
Produced for the Program
Committee by General Synod Communications.
(1 videocassette; ca. 25
min.)
Walking Shoe
Incident.
Episode of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation’s television series,
“The Newsroom,”
originally broadcast 1996. Producer, Jan Peter
Meyboom.
Ref.:
OCLC catalog entry, in which abstract states that
“in
The walking shoe incident, news director George
pressing
matters as returning his walking shoes….He’s
faced
with a dilemma: hire the qualified African-Canadian
lesbian
or the inexperienced yet attractive ski bunny.”
OCLC
indicates that video distributed in the
Acorn
Media, 1998 (ISBN 1569382840).
We’re Funny That
Way.
Directed by David Adkin,
1998.
(1 videocassette; 86
min.)
Filmed
in
Documentary
features eleven queer comedians from around
When Love Is Gay.
Produced by Jacques Vallée.
Director of English version: Dagmar Teufel.
(1 videocassette; ca. 49 min.)
Originally in
French with title: Quand l’amour est gai, listed elsewhere in
this section. French dialogue translated and overlaid in
English version.
An
exploration of relationships between men, from longstanding
monogamy to brief encounters. Men of all ages talk openly about their
gayness and the difficulty of
self-acceptance in a straight, often
homophobic society. Intimate
interviews alternate with action scenes –
Information from liner notes.
When Night Is Falling.
Produced by Barbara Tranter. Directed and with screenplay by Patricia
Rozema.
(94 min.)
Story
of lesbian love.
French title: Quand tombe la nuit.
When Shirley Met
Produced by Judith Merritt and Wolf Koenig. Directed by Ronit Bezalel.
(1 videocassette; ca. 27 min.)
“Offers a
portrait of two women in their mid-sixties – one lesbian, the
other
heterosexual – whose friendship, and the music they create together,
transcends differences” -- NFB abstract. This work is grouped with nine
others under the National Film Board of
Video Collection, for which see elsewhere in this section. Titles from the
group that seem relevant to this bibliography receive individual entries.
Who Is
Albert Woo?
Directed by Hunt Hoe; produced by Germaine Ying Gee Wong.
(1 videocassette; 52 min.; NFB no. 9100 089)
Broader than scope of this bibliography, looking at the perception of Asian
men in the West, but an estimated 10 min. devoted to gay issues.
Whole New Thing.
Directed by Amnon Buchbinder; written by Amnon Buchbinder and
Daniel MacIvor; produced by Camelia Freiberg and Kelly Bray.
(1 videodisc; 92 min.)
Originally released as motion picture in 2005.
Intelligent, androgynous high school student. Student-teacher
relationship, with English teacher, creates problems.
Why Thee Wed?
Directed and written by Cal Garingan; producer: Selwyn Jacob.
(1 videodisc (50 min.); publisher nos. C 9105 054 ; 153C 9105 054)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33092762, which notes:
“Presents interviews with same-sex married couples who share their views
on marriage, religious and political opposition, child adoption, and love.
Also includes interviews with their families [etc.]….”
The Wild Woman in the Woods.
Written and directed by Shani Mootoo.
Vancouver: Video Out Distribution, 1993.
(1 videocassette; 14 min.)
Performers: Shauna Beharry, Shani Mootoo, Nita
Varma, and Sandra
Strange.
“A South Asian
lesbian who has adopted butch signifiers from white
culture tracks down the liberating
possibilities of a femme persona” –
Summary from
A Woman in My Platoon.
Director/producer/script/camera: Marilyn Burgess.
(video, ½ and ¾ in.; 20 min.)
AMICUS catalogue record no. 15410737 summary:
“Through the story of a young lesbian who joins the Canadian Armed
Forces in the hope of meeting a soul sister, this documentary addresses the
issue of discrimination against homosexuals in the Canadian military.”
The World is Sick (sic).
Written, directed, produced, and edited by John Greyson.
(1 videocassette; 38 min.)
“David Roche”
–
“An eccentric
documentary about the activist demonstrations at the 5th
International
Conference on AIDS in
of
Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore.
Written and performed by Mirha-Soleil Ross.
(1 videocassette; 74 min.)
“On
Mirha-Soleil Ross delivered a series of blows in monologue form
at anti-prostitution discourses and campaigns, detailing the way
they impact…on prostitutes’ working conditions and lives. This is
a video documentation of the event which took place at the 519
Community
Center in
liner.
Year of the Lion.
Directed by Mose
Mossanen; choreographed by Matjash Mrozewski,
[2002?]
Dance drama filmed for
television. Broadcast on Canadian
Broadcasting
Corporation’s “Opening Night”
series,
incorporates gay/straight/bisexual
sequences in various combinations.
Zero Patience.
Written and directed by John Greyson.
Toronto: Zero
Patience Productions:
Cineplex Odeon Films, 1993.
(1 videocassette; 100 min.)
“A
satirical musical about AIDS” – University of
Un zoo la nuit.
Directed by Jean-Claude
Lauzon, 1987.
(1 videocassette; 117 min.)
Released
prisoner encounters two crooked gay cops, etc.