Experimental Gay Films - Gay Films Matter

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Chongqing Baby

2017 Drama

A young Asian man alone at home, captured in experimental video art, moves through moments of erotic desire.

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Boy with Cat

1966 Comedy

A cat's inquisitive look interferes with a young man's intimate moment.

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Uranus

2013 Fantasy

Venus lying down, Uranus in the corner.

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David

2018 Drama, Fantasy

After a recent breakup with a boy named David, a young man spirals down a mind-bending rabbit hole of unusual encounters with other Davids.

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Bator

2020 Drama

After a devastating cycling accident leaves him with severe nerve damage on one side of his body, R. struggles to feel connected to himself or the world around him. While recovering, he becomes captivated by an ASMR creator whose soothing videos offer rare comfort. As his obsession deepens, the man on screen seems to speak directly to him, guiding him toward an increasingly intimate experience. For R., the encounter becomes an unexpected awakening, restoring a sense of connection he thought he had lost.

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At Night I Was Beautiful

2010 Documentary, Drama

A man reflects on his past life in New York City, recounting his experiences with candid introspection.

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You Like That

2023 Drama

In Edinburgh, an introverted gay American student yearns for the romantic ideals he has read about in 19th-century literature.

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Richard & Gilbert

2015 Horror

A quiet village grapples with a series of chilling and inexplicable homicides.

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Blow Job

1964 Documentary

Capturing a man's facial expressions during intimacy.

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Dry

2014 Drama

In a barren desert, two men give themselves over to the emptiness and to each other, creating a vast, experimental portrait of connection and surrender.

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Boys Like Us

2017 Musical

The vulnerability, isolation and desire for connection felt by adolescent men coming into their gay identity.

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Running Cock

2013 Comedy

A playful art video centered on a humorous depiction of a penis.

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The LGBTQAlphabet

2017 Documentary

Twenty-six ways to share who you are and how you love, because 6 letters will never be enough.

Habeas Corpus

1986 Drama

An experimental film showing four days in the life of a man kept in captivity, alternating between images of his physique, a happy moment on a beach, and his captor.

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Burnt

2009 Drama

A monochromatic recount of childhood memories through the lover's voice.

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Frostbite

1996 Drama

A lonely lighthouse keeper rescues his fantasy: a frostbitten man on the rocks.

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Dollhouse

2023 Horror

We're immaterial beings. We'll always be inside of each other's heart. Day by day, we mutate and get way stronger. Body, soul and blood smelling like pink.

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Anthem

1991 Comedy

A celebration of dance, music, words, and poetry explores the joy and challenges of being black and queer.

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Biscaya

2015 Drama

A young man sits naked in a bathtub, as lines from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land appear on screen, merging poetry and intimate visual presence in a contemplative, experimental piece.

Little Gay Boy

2013 Drama

A young gay boy, from his birth to his teenage years, in which he experiments his sexuality and his own boundaries, to the day he finally meets his father.

Never Met Picasso

1996 Comedy, Drama, Romance

A gay thirty year old lives at home and is in the midst of a serious creative funk. Rejected by numerous art schools and lacking romantic prospects, he looks to his charismatic Uncle Alfred for inspiration.