Experimental Gay Films - Gay Films Matter

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Black Sheep Boy

1995 Fantasy

Sexuality and coming-of-age stories are explored in this psychological exploration.

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Hand Job

2001 Comedy

An experimental stop-motion film depicts a man exploring his desires in a visually striking narrative.

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Showers

2002 Drama

A young man explores the realities of urban gay life, moving from one experience to another in search of answers.

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Matthew

2010 Drama

Matthew is a New York go-go boy living in an apartment in Brooklyn. At night he dances in downtown Manhattan gay clubs and comes home in the early hours. At the privacy of his own space, he indulges into the pleasure of household activities, such as washing the dishes, working out and flirting with the neighbors.

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Anti Reproductive Mating Ritual

2011 Drama

Two young men engage in a beautiful and intimate courtship ritual while skateboarding on a dock.

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Le gant de l’autre

1977 Drama

Exploration of bodies. Point, counterpoint. A black glove goes in search of a red glove.

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Downsized

2009 Drama, Mystery

After being laid off, a man decides to take matters into his own hands.

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Gods of the Supermarket

2022 Drama

Through a series of gleaned images from the internet and elsewhere, our cultural obsession with unrealistic beauty standards is put into question.

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Blonde Cobra

1963 Comedy

An experimental short film that blending singing and storytelling, touching on themes such as nations, death, religion, intimacy, and evil.

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In a Strange Room

2020 Documentary

In the summer of 2008, Enzo travels to Berlin to work on a creative documentary and find a former lover.

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All Work No Play

2020 Drama

Marc's encounter with a hate crime prompts a journey exploring toxic masculinity's consequences. He finds solace in a group fostering vulnerability and intimacy as a healing antidote.

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He Carries Evil Under His Armpit

2021 Drama

A group of men revisit their school's stadium, confronting their pasts and the realities of their present lives.

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Exalted Mars

2022 Drama

A man's introspective journey through sleep leads him through a city awakening at dawn, symbolizing life's renewal amidst urban flow and architectural splendor.

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Ungentle

2023 Drama

Examines the hidden intersection of British intelligence and gay life in the late twentieth century. Through the voice of an anonymous former spy, stories of secrecy, desire, and surveillance unfold against evocative images of the English countryside, London's bustling streets, and the city's after-dark cruising spots.

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Abaddon

2023 Drama

Gaspard's car rushes down a road lined by anemic trees. His radio picks up a weird frequency, a broadcast about him. The voice emitted is not that of a radio host, nor an advertising jingle, it rehashes fragments of his life. Gaspard's eyes don't look at anything, they see through things, they project his trajectory like a ruptured slideshow of the stages that have led him up to here: nowhere.

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Lot in Sodom

1933 Drama

A sensual depiction of the Sodom and Gomorrah story filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies, delirious bacchanales devoted to physical pleasure, and a searing, cataclysmic finale depicting the fall of a city devoted to sins of the flesh.

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The Constant Evening

2020 Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

A tense encounter between James and a mysterious young stranger reveals significant yearnings from James's former relationship.

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The Date

2015 Drama

A boy gets up the nerve to ask another boy to go to the dance.

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They

2017 Drama

Draws on Turing’s theory, turning it into a series of visual and poetic and choreographic moving images for the screen, blurring the boundaries between the binaries of physical and virtual space, past and future, male and female, and human and machine.

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Disguise

2013 Drama

Explores themes of identity, otherness, and the experience of being different, offering a poetic reflection on LGBTQ+ lives.

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Welcome to the Candy House

2013 Drama

Hänsel and Gretel stumble through the big city in search for company. A 'Witch's Night - couples welcome!' sounds like a solution to all their problems.

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Sperm Whale

2003 Fantasy

An experimental film shot on distressed 16mm celluloid that reveals various men on the beach or in swimming pools, in various states of lounging in the lazy California sun.

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Memoirs of a Killarney Houseboy

2012 Comedy, Horror

An older gay man, once a star of the rave scene, now works as a houseboy in Johannesburg. He becomes dangerously obsessed with one of his clients, the captain of a synchronized swimming team. When his love is rejected, he turns to a lesbian couple for comfort, but his presence soon drives a rift between them.

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Robert

2014 Drama

A micro-short film starring model Robert Mull.