Jiro Onuma arrived in the U.S. from Japan at the age of 19 in the 1920s and was imprisoned during WWII. Queer, and an avid collector of homoerotic physique magazines, the Jiro of this film is depicted surviving the isolation, boredom, humiliation and heteronormativity of internment. This musical mash-up video features drag king performance, U.S. propaganda footage, muscle building and homoerotic bread-making.

I wanted to be a boy when I got borned, you know, outta your tummy!" — Audrey, age 6

Audrey Superhero explores the shifting terrain of gender identity. The film includes vividly charged discussions with Audrey, who insists that she is Superman, along with views of her obsessive role-playing during her daily life out in the "real" world. Playful and arresting, Audrey de-cloaks from Clark Kent to Superman, revealing her "secret identity" as a boy. She does push-ups, practices flying, and imagines "saving the police from the bad guy." She ruminates, "to have a girlfriend I have to be a boy," all the while drawing us into her state of transformation. The unscripted narrative was built through the collaboration of mother and daughter, with Audrey youthfully honest and willing to reveal her inner emotional state. She is open as only a six-year-old could be.

In Los Angeles, art, like life, is something that happens between car rides. As seen through a rear-view mirror-like reflection of the mind, a hand-processed explosion of emulsion, light flares, and re-photographed images, a day shared between three artists creates a unique form of autobiographical fiction. As their conversation about a single relationship becomes a metaphor for the relationships between each of them and the relationship between an artist and their own artistic process. Adrift in a world of lousy, lost, or un-attainable loves, sometimes the only relationship we have that keeps us going is one we make ourselves.

A relationship breaks down under the strain of different oppressions that keep us silent even in our most intimate spaces.  Oppression works divide-and-conquer style through struggles with race and class.

Dreamy macro shot stills of a fabulous queen create a landscape of genderfuck beauty. Voiceover of the filmmaker and Veruca talking about the shared histories of the evolution of their gender presentation. This is a film about friendship.

D1: Disasters that happen to humans because of nature.

D2: Disasters that happen to nature because of humans.

D3: Disasters that happen to humans because of humans.

16mm film collage with hand-altered (painted, scratched, distressed) found footage and experimental processes shown on dual-projectors to create superimposed juxtapositions of nature footage, flooded towns, logging, smokestacks, crowded city sidewalks - not natural disasters as we might popularly imagine them but the disaster of life.

A postcard has two sides. One, a recognizable image; the other, a personal message. A visceral journey, Death In Three Acts is a matador's dance between two seemingly competing identities.

This film is a contact printed experimental film. Spliced loops of picture and then optical sound have been printed onto new stock, hand-processed and solarized. A new kind of physical examination was formed.

Danya McLeod watches TV so we don't have to. Like the short description summaries that often accompany TV programs through an on-screen cable guide, Don't Ask Don't Tell Gay Gay Gay is a jump-cut/short-cut edit of Season 4, Episode 4 of Boston Legal. All excess material has been removed to effectively capture the tone of national discourse around DADT.

Staging of an excerpt from the opera Lakmé by Leo Delibes. Two women meet secretly where "the flowering vines spill their shadow over the sacred creek that runs quiet and dark, awakened only by bird songs." A man stares at them . . . Their voices, floating on the water can be heard far away.

A glimpse into Weimar-era Berlin through an imagined one-night-stand between Frida Kahlo and Anita Berber in 1924. Sparks fly when two gender transgressing icons meet in a deliciously seedy nightclub. Revolutionary ideas and subversive art form the basis for a powerful attraction. This beautifully erotic film adds an anachronistic queer flavor to a favorite historical era.

Wildblood is the third piece in a trilogy of animated shorts by Los Angeles artist David Jones. It takes its inspiration from queer zines and the San Francisco homocore music scene of the early 90s. The artist was a member of the seminal band Fagbash and considers the piece reminiscent of the type of making indicative of this period. It is constructed entirely of xerox collages re-photographed and animated digitally.