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This ambitious season featured a record 15 shorts in assorted genres, plus two documentaries.

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  • After the Second Date
    (Kathryn Beranich, 1996, USA, video, 25min)
    Fourteen NYC lesbians take a candid look at love, sex and dating in the 90's.
  • Treyf
    (Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky, 1998, USA, 16mm, 55min)
    An unorthodox documentary about two Jewish lesbians who meet and fall in love at a Passover seder.
  • Bloody Well Done
    (Nathalie Percillier, 1994, Germany, video, 5min)
    A young woman suddenly finds herself inside a video game.
  • Static
    (Nikki Forrest, 1995, Canada, video, 7min)
    Homophobic rhetoric litters the airwaves, as lesbian life quietly goes on.
  • Her Sweetness Lingers
    (Shani Mootoo, 1994, Canada, video, 12min)
    Poetry and lyrical imagery combine to explore the fatal possibilities that begin with a caress.
  • Untouchable
    (Thirza Cuthand, 1998, Canada, video, 4min)
    Reflections of a lesbian teenager, decrying the powerlessness of youth.
  • It Happened in the Stacks
    (Hope Thompson, 1997, Canada, 16mm, 9min)
    A librarian tangles with a femme fatale in this wry, noir melodrama.
  • Bayou
    (Dina Ciraulo, 1997, USA, 16mm, 7min)
    This haunting experimental diary accompanies a woman on a journey to visit her girlfriend's parents.
  • Tomboy
    (Donna Carter, 1997, USA, 16mm, 5min)
    An African American tomboy follows her own "hoop dreams."
  • Gifts from My Father
    (Kim McNabb, 1997, USA, 16mm, 18min)
    A father-daughter relationship interweaves themes of basketball, alcoholism and sexuality.
  • Dance with Me
    (Cassandra Nicolaou, 1997, Canada, 16mm, 9min)
    A young woman struggles to make sense of her complicated relationship with her mother.
  • Good Citizen, Betty Baker
    (Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, 1995, Canada, 16mm, 27min)
    A civic-minded, busybody housewife is swept into a gender-bending intrigue in this pop art satire of a cliffhanger serial.
  • Twisted Sheets
    (Chris Deacon, 1996, Canada, 16mm, 14min)
    When Sue dashes to the store in her nightgown, she doesn't count on running into her ex-boyfriend and his hot new girlfriend. Retribution is sweet in this twist on the classic love triangle.
  • The Tragedy of Samantha Biggle and the Twins
    (Lauren Himmel, 1998, USA, 16mm, 32min)
    Sam's boarding school romance is complicated by a crush on her roommate's seductive sister.
  • Why I'll Never Trust You
    (Cassandra Nicolaou, 1995, Canada, 16mm, 11min)
    One phone call changes everything.
  • Chance to Seal Our Love
    (Beate Kunath, 1997, Germany, 16mm/video, 35min)
    A love story from the Chemnitzer Film Collective, in the former East Germany. Will our heroines tie the knot?
  • Sleep, Come Free Me
    (Laurie Schmidt, 1998, USA, 16mm, 18min)
    A woman's sexual dreams and fantasies impinge on her boring job.

February 13, 2019 by Susan Taunton

1999 season flyer

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