Leather Graves

Crystal Lake is about a group of young girls who take over a skate park, forming an all-female force field on the half pipe. There on the reclaimed ramp, with no boys around, they are thriving and visible. This is an anthem for young feminists, which presents female friendship as a means to survive adolescence.

Riot Acts is a transfabulous rockumentary representing the whole lives of transgender and gender variant musicians, through a first-hand perspective of the intersections between gender performance and stage performance. This feature-length documentary highlights issues crucial to interviewees such as songwriting, voice presentation, presenting a body or bodies on stage, audiences, venues, the idea of the spectacle, media representation, performing gender and notions about 'drag,' and the personal as political. The film culminates with the notions that identities and bodies are undeniably political, and the the trans experience isn't always one of tragedy, but one of creativity and joy.

An epic anthology feature film event combining 25 shorts from different queer directors worldwide, each telling a story based on a color/fetish of the infamous hanky code.

Through the process of contact printing, hand processing, and low-fi optical printing, Gossamer Walls remembers, mis-remembers, and reinterprets a previous generation’s super 8 home movies.

Shot at sites of nuclear development, detonation, industry, tourism, and activism, "RUN!" examines the ways that ideologies of war structure landscapes, community rituals, cinematic technology, entomology, pandemic management, and even notions of LGBTQ liberation.

A remake of Jack Smith's 1969 film, “Song for Rent.” Open captions and audio description make the film accessible to a wider audience, while playing a critical role in the film’s structure.

Caught in a system of confinement, surveillance, and restriction, a leather outlaw eludes the state by recalling his lover bathed in Vaseline.

Plastic Aortas is a portrait of the black plastic encasing the Fells Reservoir in the unceded land of the Massachusett, Pawtucket, and Naumkeag indigenous peoples. The lining was placed there by conservationists in order to mitigate the invasive Common Reed, which is killing native plants. However, the lining also interferes with wildlife and contaminates the water.

A housefly transitions into a man in order to cruise gay bars. Text and images appropriated from the March 1985 issue of “Manscape,” an adult, gay digest magazine.

In psychoanalytic theory, a dream of a fallen tooth represents fears of castration. In Magnetic Resonance, a cicada falls to its death and New Wave musician Marc Almond falls to the feet of Clint Ruin; a tooth stands in for a brain tumor and the naked legs of the filmmakers on a sheet-less mattress stand in for Almond and Ruin’s performance on stage. "Castrated" bodies become conduits of attraction.

Against a backdrop of electrocution, dominance, and scientific precision, wasps nest in an abandoned refrigerator, eyelashes flutter, curtains blow in open windows, and queers congregate. Adapting Stanley Milgram's 1963 experiment on obedience to authority, "Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow" explores how queer communities reenact, resist, and respond to assimilation, coercion, and trauma.

An experimental 16mm film that investigates colonial ideologies through aerodynamic, mechanical, and ballistic flight. Inside the Earth’s atmosphere, "First Breath on Mars" chronicles the establishment of ornithology in the United States. Outside the Earth’s atmosphere, the film probes into dreams of and developments in space exploration.

"I Wake Up with a Flower in my Hand" is a 25-year anniversary remix of "Killer Janitors,” a cable access TV show created by high school sophomores, Kasten Searles & Malic Amalya. Using all original footage and adding no special effects, the new cut focuses on how the best friends saw each other and understood themselves within the context of their friendship, high school, home lives, and a world beyond their small-town confinements—felt but not yet touched.

To clutch. To grasp.

A field guide from the Oakland Hills.

I practice being thirty-two by biking around Oakland and dressing the same as I did at age fourteen.