Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009

CHARADES This found footage film celebrates boy/girl identity and lesbian sexuality. (USA, 2009, 7 min, dir: Ann Steuernagel) F/F What do Maine’s Fryeburg Fair and San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair have in common? (USA, 2007, 10 mins, dir: Charles Lum) THE CONTENDER A trans action hero prepares for The Revolution. (USA, 2006, 6 mins, dir: Gracie Bucciarelli) FILLED WITH WATER Find the perfect wave, the perfect lover and “hang ten” through life. (Australia, 2006, 5 mins, dir:Elka Kerkhofs) TOKENS A woman journeys to a sexual identity beyond her Mormon upbringing. (USA, 2007, 18 mins, dir: Julie Casper Roth) LASH The trials and tribulations of living one’s entire life in one day as told through the politics of invention, animation and visionary storytelling. (Australia, 2008, 6 mins, dir: Elka Kerkhofs) PERCHANCE The “morality” of 1950’s social hygiene gets turned on its head. (US, 2008, 4 mins, dir: Caryn Cline) FANTASY VISION MEDITATION MEGAMIX Digital exegesis of the hidden spirituality in Fred Halsted’s films and Sylvester’s music. (USA, 2008, 5 mins, dir: Ivan Lozano) STROKES A gentle homage to Jean Cocteau’s Le Sang d’un Poete. (USA, 2007, 2 mins, dir: Mika Kiburz) CREEPING CRIMSON George Kuchar: “It is fall and Halloween and mom is in the hospital. The leaves are red and the mood is blue but life drips on.” (USA, 1987, 13 mins, dir: George Kuchar) Co-presented by Basement Films & Experiments In Cinema TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 76 min