Faux Paw

A man-sized, reptilian "Chef Detective" helps a nameless blonde make sense of her recurring dream.

A Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke follows a big boned butch into skirmishes, drag, and the arms of a beautiful recruit. The public and private lives of this "strange animal" are explored with the reverence and glee found in the educational exposés like Reefer Madness and bad-boy films like Rebel without a Cause. However, because this fictionalized lesbian history is a first-person narrative, it is filled with all the joy, pain, and ambivalence each of us experiences while negotiating a marginalized identity.

Meticulous stop-motion techniques, brilliant set-design and an eerie percussive musical score distinguish this unlikely mini-epic about a showdown between a Japanese homebody and a volatile magenta-haired invader.

Recalling the flickering invention of early silent film illusionists, this battle of wits begins simply enough, with the innocent creation of cut-and-fold triangles from a blank sheet of paper.